Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

On Monday 01 of March 2010 20:58, David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

Working through the setup of my new server, I rad across a wonderful hidden time-saver in /etc/pam.d/su. If you have configured sudo in the normal way by providing sudo access to members of the 'wheel' group, you can avoid having to type the root password to 'su' by uncommenting the following line in /etc/pam.d/su:

<snip> In my own personal opinion, su shouldn't be passwordless. You can use sudo -i combined with NOPASSWD in sudoers instead. After all, you have sudo installed, and you are giving someone instant access . -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.