thats what we have done. a user which is a member of wheel group now can not login cause of the password. what ill try to do is make this user able to login. regards 2009/12/25 Tom Curl <tcurl@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > What you want to do is disable a security feature that prevents users > from logging in as root using a GUI screen. You would be better advised > to educate your users to log in using a non-privileged user name and > then use a terminal window for performing root commands. Or you could > add the user who needs these privileges to the "wheel" group or enable > their privileges using "visudo". > > You can google on these terms or use the man function if you need > assistance. > > > > On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 10:35 +0200, a bv wrote: >> Hi, >> On a Redhat 4x or 5x box which password policy applied a user with >> sudo permissions cant login cause of the password not accepted. The >> root pasword is not reachable and the box is a production machine >> which is serving services and cant be rebooted easily. Cause the >> password policy makes the user change its policy, the user thinks if >> he have fogotten or not the recent password. But trying the similar >> passwords didnt worked, and he thinks if his user account is locked >> for a long time. So how can this issue can be fixed? >> >> Regards >> > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
