root password suits all

Benjamin Stewart benstewart74 at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 1 14:48:22 EST 2003


Why dont you just login as root and then 
su <username>
 
--- Michael James <michael at james.st> wrote: > I need
to fixt some strange behaviour in certain
> accounts
>  and it's inconvenient getting the users in, just to
> type their passwords.
> 
> It'd be more convenient if I could log in as anyone
> using the root password.
> 
> Anyone know a pam module or config that will allow
> this?
> 
> Makes the logs less useful for tracking
>  but I can log in as root direct anyway,
>  so I'm not loosing much.
> 
> michaelj
> 
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