changing the login password's requirement

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 19 13:07:48 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:16:16PM +0900, Joel wrote:
> > password or not,the question is whether the thing I am thinking is
> > possible or not.I may not use it but I am interested in knowing
> > whether this is possible or not.
> The source to su is available. Linux has a compiler and the tools to
> overwrite the system version of su with a custom version (assuming you
> have such privileges) or use other methods to accomplish this sort of
> thing.

I don't think you even need source; you can probably accomplish this by
mucking with /etc/pam.d/system-auth. But I'm at a loss as to why you'd want
this.

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