Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Christophe Vanfleteren <c.vanfleteren@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] su
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:05:00
Message-Id: 200204101304.57815.c.vanfleteren@pandora.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] su by David Courtney
1 On Wednesday 10 April 2002 14:00, David Courtney wrote:
2 > OK I give up trying to figure this out on my own.
3 >
4 > How do I enable su for a regular user? I don't like to use root unless
5 > absolutely necessary but with Gentoo there is some predefined "su" block in
6 > place preventing my regular user account from being able to su to root.
7 >
8 > -- david
9 you have to add the user to the wheel group, only those members are allowed to
10 su to root:
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12 usermod -G wheel user_name
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16 Christophe Vanfleteren

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Re: [gentoo-dev] su Gert Menke <gert@××××××××.net>