I have not seen the situation you are describing. Let me be sure I understand: You have a user - user1 User1 has a password - UserOne$ You have added user1 to the wheel group. Now, when user1 tries to logon via the GUI, and enters the password UserOne$ the logon is disallowed? On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 15:43 +0200, a bv wrote: > 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
