>
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100
> Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:42, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> > which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console
>> > as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken
>> > egg.
>>
>> Not necessarily: if you use kde, konsole has a "root shell" feature.
>
> Which I suspect only works if you can use su, although i am not 100% on
> that.
>
dosn't su just have its own /etc/pam.d/su file that has pam_rootok.so in
it so root can just su without a passwd and it also has a module that
checks if they are in the wheel group.
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