multi-user solution
Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca
Thu Apr 21 00:54:26 UTC 2005
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Jesse Haubrich wrote:
| Thanks, but I have a root password. I can't use it to sudo from any
| user account but the 1001 user though. What I'm interested in is
| disconnecting the super user account from the 1001 user password, then
| allow other users to sudo with the root password, and basically have a
| classic UNIX style setup.
|
You don't need sudo once root has it's own password. Now you can use
'su -' and you'll be in a root shell. This should work from a terminal
started by any user,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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