On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > In fact, my password, while longer than most, is about half the length > of roots, which is so long its not usable with ssh or samba. For that > reason, I wouldn't mind being forced to use roots password to sudo. That's what "su" is for, surely? "su" to become root, "sudo" to pretend to be root. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.