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non-admin account unnecessary...
Authored by: timrob on Jul 25, '02 07:20:26PM

"any account can run su ; it's only requirement is the root password."

I'm not sure this is completely accurate. I believe the user must be in /etc/sudoers to be able to use su. At least that was how it used to be.
I haven't checked lately.

Tim



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Authored by: momerath on Jul 25, '02 09:51:32PM

If you try to su while logged in as non-admin, it will tell you that you have to be in the group closest to root, "wheel," in order to su. And you do have to be in the special sudo file in order to sudo.



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Authored by: soob on Jul 26, '02 10:19:12AM
> I believe the user must be in /etc/sudoers to be able to use su

this may be true for just su, but not true for su username. I use this regularly on my home machine which I keep logged in to a non-admin account. In order to do admin activities in Terminal, I first need to su admin, then I'm able to use sudo to get things done.

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