Now we are talking, A shiny new custom install of Leap-15 Beta with Minimal X, via IceWM and Low and Behold GCC 7.3! # gpasswd -a david wheel # visudo ... ## Same thing without a password %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL # vi /etc/pam.d/su ...(see 2 comment lines and 2 additions below) #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid auth include common-auth account sufficient pam_rootok.so account include common-account password include common-password session include common-session session optional pam_xauth.so # exit $ su # ... (bingo - works fine) # hostname myhostname.mydomain.tld # echo myhostname > /etc/hostname # systemctl reboot ... $ done :) - painlessly, now to finish the KDE3 build... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org