From: "Bruce Hill, Jr." <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:11:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1806883435.820749.1332040317879.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F648D68.4040008@coolmail.se>
On March 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM pk <peterk2@coolmail.se> wrote:
> That's what gives you permission to use 'su' as a member of the 'wheel'
> group ('su' is controlled by 'pam').
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter K
>
Am I eternally confused?
su - change user ID or become superuser
It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theoretically if you only have one
normal user). On a true multiuser system you can su (switch user) to any
user.
Since _every_ computer I own or have _ever_ built has -pam globally, pam is
not a requirement to use su ... is it?
mingdao@t420 ~ $ grep pam /etc/make.conf
truetype udev unicode unicode3 vaapi vim-syntax x264 -consolekit -pam"
mingdao@t420 ~ $ id
uid=1000(mingdao) gid=1000(mingdao)
groups=1000(mingdao),7(lp),10(wheel),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),250(portage)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-18 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-17 10:19 [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems Dale
2012-03-17 13:11 ` pk
2012-03-18 2:47 ` Dale
2012-03-18 8:24 ` Dale
2012-03-18 3:11 ` Bruce Hill, Jr. [this message]
2012-03-18 10:22 ` pk
2012-03-18 12:56 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
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