On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Low Chin Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I suspect you mean 'sudo' command, since anyone can 'su' as long as you
> know
> > the password.
>
> That's not true. In some system su is disabled (well you can
> technically `sudo su`). Additionally PAM may disallow su through ssh.
>

If using PAM, look in /etc/pam.d/su to see if there is a line that says
something like "auth required pam_wheel.so".  If uncommented, that will tell
you which group users need to be in to su.


> > you need to do 'visudo' as root
> > This will edit a file 'sudoers' typically in the '/etc/', you can find
> the
> > syntax for sudoers using 'man 5 sudoers'
> > Enjoy.
> > On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Try adding the user to the 'wheel' group.  eg. vigr, usermod -a -G
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Yong Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> sorry to ask such simple question:
> >>
> >> how to add user with the ability to do the su command?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> yonghan.
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