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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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