Changeset e6ae99a for postlfs/security/shadow.xml

Timestamp:

04/10/2019 12:51:08 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

2dc27593

Parents:

5c115c8

Message:

Update a warning in shadow: to test the "su" command, user must be in group
wheel.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21451 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/security/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -486 +486 @@
             any errors, then all is well and you should proceed with the rest of
             the configuration. If you did receive errors, stop now and double
-            check the above configuration files manually. You can also run the
+            check the above configuration files manually. One obvious reason
+            for an error is if the user is not in group <systemitem
+            class="groupname">wheel</systemitem>. You may want to run (as
+            <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>): <command>usermod
+            -a -G wheel <replaceable>&lt;user&gt;</replaceable></command>.
+            Any other error is the sign of an error in the above procedure.
+            You can also run the
             test suite from the <application>Linux-PAM</application> package to
             assist you in determining the problem. If you cannot find and fix