su Usage

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:23:28PM -0500, Oisin Curtin wrote:
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:40, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:13:58PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can somone point me to a good doc on using "su"..
> > > 
> > > I have always just logged in a root because security was not really an 
> 
> But you know that's 'not a good thing'.
> 
> > With a standard user account if you type or click  one of the 60+ administrative
> > functions you  will be prompted for the root pass word.  i.e. For these things 
> > you do not need to do a "su -".
> 
> Typing your root password many times each day maximizes opertunities for
> finger-watchers.  And besides, it's a pain in the asterisk!

Consider adding yourself to group wheel and in /etc/pam.d/su
look for these lines:
  # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group.
  #auth       sufficient   /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so trust use_uid


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