On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:46:49PM -0600, Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello- > i login as root to my gentoo machine right now with a password like all the > other users on the machine. what i would like to do is remove the root > password and allow another user to su in the machine. I know that user must > be in the same group 'wheel'. what file should i edit to remove the password > for root? are there any other things i should be concerned about?
Well, first of all I think that removing the root password is a Very Very Bad Idea(tm). If you only want to let another user log in as root (other than yourself I presume) why not just let them use a password. Things you should be concerned about are numerous. You're talking about allowing superuser access to your machine with NO PASSWORD. Think about it. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
