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Re: [trinity-users] Problems with TDEsu

From: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:25:46 -0500
On 2019-07-26 02:34:29 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 07/25/2019 08:58 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > 	Because OpenSuSE, the distro I use, has traditionally used both su and
> > sudo for system administration, many (most?) OpenSuSE users are not
> > averse to using either or both of them; the distro seems to expect that
> > su will be used for administration.
> >
> :) yep, I've run SuSE since 7.0-Pro, when Mandrake begin to implode. On
>
> openSuSE you can also configure /etc/pam.d/su to allow member of the wheel
> group to su without a password -- that comes in hand for me (since I'm the
> only member of wheel) You can add:
>
> auth     sufficient     pam_rootok.so
> auth     sufficient     pam_wheel.so trust use_uid
>
> Take effect immediately (presuming you are a member of wheel -- which in
> 15.0 or 15.1 opensuse no longer creates by default unless a server install
> is selected -- just create it manually, and I gave it the traditional GID
> of 10, but in 15.0 it has a random GID.

	Hm.  The first auth was already set, but after adding the second it wants me
to enter the root password; is that the way it works for you?  If so, it
doesn't seem to provide a benefit to me. :-)

Leslie