Unix administration - local su problem

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local su problem

jammer

2007-09-12, 7:20 pm

I use passwordless login (ssh user@host) but when I try to 'su', I
always get "su: incorrect password".
user is in the wheel group and I can 'ssh root@host'.

David McKenzie

2007-09-13, 1:19 am

jammer wrote:
> I use passwordless login (ssh user@host) but when I try to 'su', I
> always get "su: incorrect password".
> user is in the wheel group and I can 'ssh root@host'.
>
You should use 'sudo su -'

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