On 25-Jun-2000 Mark Thomas wrote:
> ** How cool! I didn't know you could su username without a password.
> ** Novell/NT protects the user login. You have to change thier password to
> login as the ** user..
You can if you're logged in as root, the rationale being that
if you can change their password, and have access to all their
files anyway, it's a lot easier to be able to impersonate the
user without undue hassle.
Obviously, you need a password when you're not root, and you
might not even be allowed to use 'su'.
Stefaan
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