On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:12PM -0500, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:23 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > > I suspect these commands will not work for those programs that may do > > additional checks, e.g. sshd or sudo. Or if authentication is handles > > by a different mechanism, e.g. NIS or LDAP. > > Well, I did test sudo, and that worked just fine (sudo su from newuserid > put me into shell as root).
That is likely because the Ubuntu sudo to root is based on membership in a group, not on login. -- David Dooling http://www.politigenomics.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
