On 11/14/06, Aaron S. Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Philip and Jason's understanding is correct, Tanner's assertion that su
is changing to UID 0 by default is incorrect. The obvious reasons being
two fold, first off su uses PAM, and the PAM module pam_unix requires a
username to know which password to validate against. More simply
though, even if you didn't use pam, it's still got to know which entry
in /etc/{passwd,shadow} to look at, as there can be more than one UID 0
(also as previously discussed).
sorry for jacking my own thread...
the above mentioned i never recieved in email... all i saw was that tanner
responded to it.
is my email blocking it? or something else
again, sorry for jacking my own thread :p
jsn
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