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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:17:23 -0500
From:      Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
To:        "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, <MaTrIxDPN@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Su[2] was:(no subject)
Message-ID:  <01010323163004.08422@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <024d01c07601$6de2d140$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
References:  <8c.ac9607.278548f5@aol.com> <024d01c07601$6de2d140$847e03cb@apana.org.au>

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On Wednesday January 03, 2001 22:49, Doug Young wrote:
> > A user can only run su if the particular user is in group "wheel"
>
> As I understand it, having anyone in the wheel group is not
> considered good practice anymore, 

Do you know why not?  Details, I need details.  :)

> at least add the users to another group & then add the group to 
> wheel, 

Is that why when I added a user with adduser to wheel that I was 
actually added to gid 0 and 0 is in wheel?  What advantage does that 
have?

						Tim

>or preferably use something like
> sudo so you have more control over what users can do
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: MaTrIxDPN@aol.com
>   To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>   Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:33 PM
>   Subject: Re: (no subject)
>
>
>   It saids i cant su from this account, i cant remember what group it
> had to be, what group is it?


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