Questions tagged [shadow-utils]
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Can `su` preserve resource limits?
I am under user t and then switch to t again via su t:
$ ulimit -c -H; ulimit -c
1000
1000
$ su t
Password:
$ ulimit -c -H; ulimit -c
unlimited
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Is it possible to request su to preserve resource limit, just like sudo which can:
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Shell for only changing password
I need to restrict all access to a user on a RHEL 8 system and allow them to only change their own password.
I thought that I could do
[root]$ usermod -s /bin/passwd
but this is not working. What am I missing?
Update:
To be clear, the…
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When the user of a shell is `root`, does running `su` on another user name ask for password of the other user?
When the user of a shell isn't root, running su on another user name will ask for password of the other user.
When the user of a shell is root, running su on another user name doesn't ask for password of the other user. Is it correct?
I searched in…
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