[NTLUG:Discuss] su?

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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Lance Simmons wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:40:33PM -0500, Michael Patrick wrote:
> > Maybe I am missing something... why not just su to the user in question?
> 
> That's what I'd like to do, but how? www is a special account
> used by the webserver, and I'm not sure how to find out what its
> password is, or how to change it. If a person were root, he
> could obviously "su www", but I don't want anyone to be root.
> 
> If I were to change the password for www, wouldn't that mess up
> the services that run as www? Or do they not need a password
> because they're started by root?
> 
> Am I missing something really obvious here? 
> 

  root does not need a password to su, nor to "run as"

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