sudo password

[Dave Howorth]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> When I use sudo I'd like to use a different password to the one I logged
>> in with. I see that I could configure /etc/sudoers so that I used root's
>> password but I buy into the ubuntu argument that it's better not to have
>> the root account enabled. 
> 
> The root account *is* enabled in Ubuntu, only password authentication
> for root is disabled. Instead you use sudo to log into the root account.

You're quite right - sorry for my sloppy English.

>> So is there some way to configure a different password?
> 
> It should be possible using PAM
> <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/>, but I don't know any
> specific guide to do this.

OK. PAM is a foreign country to me, so I'll look at that after I try
Fred's suggestion.

Thanks, Dave