Fwd: su - does not ask for password

Teo De Las Heras teoheras at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 11:05:29 PDT 2005


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From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: su - does not ask for password
To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl at gmx.net>

My account has a password and when I "su -" I go right in as root without a
password prompt. What changed?
 Teo

 On 10/14/05, Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 17:48 CEST schrieb Teo De Las Heras:
> > I've added myself to the wheel group and can successfully su - into
> > root. I'm wondering though, where I make the configuration to ask for a
> > password when su - is called.
>
> You have to assign the superuser a password first. su will always ask for
> the password if the user has one and the executing user is not root (id0)
>
> -Harry
>
> > Teo
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