From: "Sebastian Werner" <sebastian@werner-productions.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: AW: [gentoo-dev] User
Date: Wed May 23 07:43:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AMEEJMEOEKBHOGCEHFEFOEKCCAAA.sebastian@werner-productions.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B0BB066.D1AEB581@gentoo.org>
Great,
but why the groupname for su is wheel?
One of the last groups i would try, normally...
Sebastian
-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org [mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org]Im
Auftrag von Achim Gottinger
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2001 14:43
An: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Betreff: Re: [gentoo-dev] User
Sebastian Werner wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
> a shadow and a shadow-
> a group and a group-
>
> it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction,
or
> what?
gentoo uses the pwdb pam module and shadow for authentification.
>
> And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
> for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?
because a user must be in the wheel group to be allowed to su
use
useradd -g users -G wheel -m username
to create such an user
bye achim~
>
> A beginnes question i think... but at the moment i have no idea,
>
> thanks,
>
> sebastian
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 7:07 [gentoo-dev] User Sebastian Werner
2001-05-23 7:13 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-05-23 7:43 ` Sebastian Werner [this message]
2001-05-23 7:46 ` AW: " Parag Mehta
2001-05-23 7:14 ` Parag Mehta
2001-05-23 7:28 ` Ben Lutgens
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