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My su does not ask for password. When I run su it simply logs me in to root. I tried su - root then it asks for password. Now, because of this kdesu runs applications with root rights without password. I tried replacing su with the following script
#!/bin/bash
/root/./su - root
exit
I moved my su into /root.
Now kdesu asks for a password but hangs as soon as I hit Enter after typing the password.
I'm using Arch Linux.
As man su notes, /etc/pam.d/su is the default PAM configuration file for su. One of the options is to grant implicit elevated privileges for anyone in the wheel group:
# Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group.
auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uidWith this line uncommented, when you issue su without any arguments, su defaults to running an interactive shell as root and, if your user is in the wheel group, without a password prompt.
/etc/pam.d/suor any of the other authentication configs? – jasonwryan Jul 5 '14 at 3:06/etc/pam.d/sufound the problem and fixed it! – compiler Jul 5 '14 at 4:20