Great,

but why the groupname for su is wheel?
One of the last groups i would try, normally...

Sebastian

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: gentoo-dev-admin@g.o [mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@g.o]Im
Auftrag von Achim Gottinger
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2001 14:43
An: gentoo-dev@g.o
Betreff: Re: [gentoo-dev] User


Sebastian Werner wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
>                a shadow and a shadow-
>                a group  and a group-
>
> it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction,
or
> what?

gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.

>
> And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
> for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
use
useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
to create such an user

bye achim~

>
> A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
>
> thanks,
>
> sebastian
>
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