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On February 6, 2003 06:14 am, Brice B wrote:
>   The reason a user must be in the "wheel" group in order to use "su" on a
> gentoo system can be found in:
>   /etc/pam.d/su
>
>   There is a line stating:
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid
>
> If you comment out that line, all users (regardless of their group) will be
> able to use "su".
>
>   There is also a line which allows users of the wheel group to "su" w/o a
> password..
>
>   Brice
>
And if you post your root password and ip address to the newsgroup, then 
EVERYONE will be able to su....

Seriously, the way to resolve a security/access problem is not to disable 
security.  At least, outside Redmond it isn't.  Although it can be useful in 
troubleshooting, which may have been what you meant.
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