Slackware does not use PAM. :)

Darrell

--- On Sat, 2/26/11, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...>
> Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] KDESU
> To: trinity-devel@...
> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 7:14 PM
> On 02/26/2011 06:57 PM, Darrell
> Anderson wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.
> > 
> > I'm using Slackware. Slackware does not restrict root
> access like Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Some time ago I filed bug reports 393 and 394 to
> address the issues.
> > 
> > Darrell
> > 
> 
> Darrell,
> 
>   If this is your box (and not one at work), you might
> try a /etc/pam.d/su fix
> that allows members of the wheel group (normal sudo group)
> to use su without
> having to enter a password. I find it very useful. After
> adding yourself to the
> wheel group (either 'groupmod -A user wheel' or gpasswd -a
> user wheel' depending
> on the distro), then in /etc/pam.d/su, (add or uncomment)
> the following:
> 
> auth           
> sufficient      pam_wheel.so trust use_uid
> auth           
> required        pam_wheel.so use_uid
> 
>   If you have public/private key access setup to a box
> and you want to be able
> to run remote X apps as root (kate/kwrite for remote
> config) you can also add
> the following to pam.d/su:
> 
> session     
>    optional       
> pam_xauth.so
> 
>   There was also an old hack to use sudo instead of su
> for KDE admin access (it
> worked fine as well). In Trinity from the command line in
> konsole/xterm or in
> alt+f2, just enter the following:
> 
> kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command
> --key super-user-command sudo
> 
>   That simply creates an entry in
> ~/.kde3/share/config/kdesurc containing the
> following:
> 
> [Passwords]
> Keep=true
> 
> [super-user-command]
> super-user-command=sudo
> 
>   If kdesu isn't working then give that a try. If it
> works - great, if it
> doesn't, then just delete kdesurc :p
> 
> 
> -- 
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
> 
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