On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:23:28PM -0500, Oisin Curtin wrote: > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:40, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:13:58PM +0000, WipeOut wrote: > > > > > > Can somone point me to a good doc on using "su".. > > > > > > I have always just logged in a root because security was not really an > > But you know that's 'not a good thing'. > > > With a standard user account if you type or click one of the 60+ administrative > > functions you will be prompted for the root pass word. i.e. For these things > > you do not need to do a "su -". > > Typing your root password many times each day maximizes opertunities for > finger-watchers. And besides, it's a pain in the asterisk! Consider adding yourself to group wheel and in /etc/pam.d/su look for these lines: # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. #auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so trust use_uid -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
