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

[Ed Jobs]

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.
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