On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, James Bagley Jr wrote: > Hey all, > > I have users that need root access to their workstations. Reading the pam > documentation for the pam_wheel module it sounds like I can allow them to > 'su -' without entering a password. This is ideal because I don't want to > # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_wheel.so trust use_uid > Here is output from the id command as a user: > > uid=976(jabagley) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),0(root),98(ident) > > when 'su -' is entered, i am prompted for a password. Did I > missunderstand the pam documentation? what is wrong? Hello James, it looks like you are not in the group wheel, just in "users","root" and "ident". So I see no error that you are prompted for the password. Regards, -- Ivan
