sudo password

[Florian Diesch]

Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> When I use sudo I'd like to use a different password to the one I logged
> in with. I see that I could configure /etc/sudoers so that I used root's
> password but I buy into the ubuntu argument that it's better not to have
> the root account enabled. 

The root account *is* enabled in Ubuntu, only password authentication
for root is disabled. Instead you use sudo to log into the root account.


> So is there some way to configure a different password?

It should be possible using PAM
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/>, but I don't know any
specific guide to do this.


   Florian
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