PAM on Debian

[Stef Bon]

Well, maybe stupid, but is your account member of the wheel group? And
is there another module before, pam_unix.so for example?

Stef
Pays Bas - the Netherlands

2011/10/20 Victor d'Agostino <victor.d-agostino at etu.esisar.grenoble-inp.fr>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running Linux debian 3.0.4 #1 SMP Sun Sep 4 21:00:06 CEST 2011 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> I try to modify the /etc/pam.d/su file by uncomenting the following line :
>
> Citation:
> # Uncomment this if you want wheel members to be able to
> # su without a password.
> #auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust
> Then I log into a new console (ctrl alt F6) but this new rule is not enabled
> because when i'm trying to su from a normal accound the root password is
> asked.
>
> Is there something to do do to validate the new /etc/pam.d/su conf file ?
>
> Thanks for your replies,
>
> --
> Victor
>
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