On March 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM pk <pete...@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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