Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sebastian Werner <sebastian@××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: AW: [gentoo-dev] User
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:42:28
Message-Id: AMEEJMEOEKBHOGCEHFEFOEKCCAAA.sebastian@werner-productions.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] User by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 Great,
2
3 but why the groupname for su is wheel?
4 One of the last groups i would try, normally...
5
6 Sebastian
7
8 -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
9 Von: gentoo-dev-admin@g.o [mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@g.o]Im
10 Auftrag von Achim Gottinger
11 Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2001 14:43
12 An: gentoo-dev@g.o
13 Betreff: Re: [gentoo-dev] User
14
15
16 Sebastian Werner wrote:
17 >
18 > Hey guys,
19 >
20 > Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
21 > a shadow and a shadow-
22 > a group and a group-
23 >
24 > it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction,
25 or
26 > what?
27
28 gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.
29
30 >
31 > And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
32 > for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?
33
34 because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
35 use
36 useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
37 to create such an user
38
39 bye achim~
40
41 >
42 > A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
43 >
44 > thanks,
45 >
46 > sebastian
47 >
48 > _______________________________________________
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50 > gentoo-dev@g.o
51 > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
52
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