On Monday 01 of March 2010 20:58, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Working through the setup of my new server, I rad across a wonderful > hidden time-saver in /etc/pam.d/su. If you have configured sudo in the > normal way by providing sudo access to members of the 'wheel' group, you > can avoid having to type the root password to 'su' by uncommenting the > following line in /etc/pam.d/su: > <snip> In my own personal opinion, su shouldn't be passwordless. You can use sudo -i combined with NOPASSWD in sudoers instead. After all, you have sudo installed, and you are giving someone instant access . -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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