topic Re: root user in Operating System - HP-UX

root user

jamie scott_2 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:16:23 GMT

When logged in as root & i su - to any user I always get ther prompt for a password. I've checked the profile of root all is ok. How can I stop the password authentification from appearing?

Re: root user

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:47:26 GMT

Hi Jamie:

Perhaps you logged in as 'root', then did 'su someuser'. At this point, your prompt would remain that of 'root'.

Hence, you might mistakenly think that you *are* root. Another 'su' will prompt you for the user's password, since you are not 'root'.

Perhaps you even did:

# who am i

...but compare that to:

# whoami

I prefer 'id' so I don't have to remember the subtle difference. See the manpages for 'whoami' and 'id'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: root user

jamie scott_2 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:42:23 GMT

A script had been written to stop root moving about the box.