Schlaegel wrote: > I want 'sudo' to work so that the root password will always work, but > if a user is a member of 'wheel' then their password should also work. > > I don't believe that the 'sudoers' file can accomplish this, but I > assume that the Swiss Army Knife of Linux authentication known as PAM, > can. > > Do any of you experts know a solution? I must admit that so far I > don't truly grok PAM. Looking in the sudoers file I see.... # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL # Same thing without a password # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Is that the sort of thing you want? It is a bit early, and I was out a bit late, to fully engage cranial functions. Ed -- He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion. It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley