thanks for all solution. i managed to create the user but i have a problem where the user cannot su into root
it would say incorrect password although i am sure that i put the correct root password. i am using RHEL 5.2. any idea? thanks alot yonghan On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Slugnet mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> >> http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Slugnet mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Slugnet mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Slugnet mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > >
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