15 нояб. 2013 г. · It asks me for a password for that user but I didn't set a password for that user. As a workaround, I have to become root then su - username ...

28 окт. 2012 г. · You can modify the "su" program to ask for passwords. It can prevent root from re-logging to other accounts unless he compiles his own version of su and uses ...

4 окт. 2012 г. · Actually its not su doing this. It's pam (well, assuming the system uses PAM). And you can probably change the pam config to avoid it.

10 апр. 2020 г. · You aren't root, you're username, so in order to now run a sudo command as username, you will need username's password. However, if what you ...

28 февр. 2018 г. · In my CentOS 7 laptop while switching from root to user using su user as root, it's asking for user 's password.

5 июл. 2016 г. · The fastest possible way to get a root shell via su is this: su --login, but you need to interactively enter the root password.

20 авг. 2016 г. · I see you are using sudo to become root, and then su to become s_user. To do this you will use your password (for sudo). You do not need the password for s_ ...

1 мая 2018 г. · sudo usually asks for the password of the user running it, though this can be configured: Unlike su(1) , when sudoers requires authentication, ...

23 февр. 2023 г. · When I enter "sudo su" I am asked for the password. But when I enter the password, I am asked another time. 3 times regulary, 3 times as a host user.

22 авг. 2018 г. · sudo su - username will log you in (in a login shell) as $username without asking for a password, while su - username will ask for the password of $username.