Not needing run_init for password-less service management
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 09 April 2013One of the things that has been bugging me was why, even with having
pam_rootok.so set in /etc/pam.d/run_init, I cannot enjoy
passwordless service management without using run_init directly:
# rc-service postgresql-9.2 status
Authenticating root.
Password:
# run_init rc-service postgresql-9.2 status
Authenticating root.
* status: started
So I …