Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] User
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:12:35
Message-Id: 3B0BB066.D1AEB581@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] User by Sebastian Werner
1 Sebastian Werner wrote:
2 >
3 > Hey guys,
4 >
5 > Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
6 > a shadow and a shadow-
7 > a group and a group-
8 >
9 > it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
10 > what?
11
12 gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.
13
14 >
15 > And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
16 > for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?
17
18 because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
19 use
20 useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
21 to create such an user
22
23 bye achim~
24
25 >
26 > A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
27 >
28 > thanks,
29 >
30 > sebastian
31 >
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AW: [gentoo-dev] User Sebastian Werner <sebastian@××××××××××××××××××.de>