Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] User
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:27:27
Message-Id: 20010523081052.A1930@minime.sistina.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] User by Sebastian Werner
1 On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:57:40PM +0200, Sebastian Werner wrote:
2 >Hey guys,
3 >
4 >Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
5 > a shadow and a shadow-
6 > a group and a group-
7
8 I am pretty sure they are backups.
9
10 >
11 >it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
12 >what?
13
14 Yes. We use PAM.
15
16
17 >
18 >
19 >And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
20 >for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?
21
22 You need to add the user to group "wheel"
23
24 HTH
25 --
26 Ben Lutgens
27 Sistina Software Inc.
28 MIS Geek
29 http://www.sistina.com/ <--- great software
30 http://www.gentoo.org/ <--- great distro
31 Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream <--- perfect error message