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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:37:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, ache@nagual.ru, guido@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su su.1 su.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225173550.3982A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199702252136.WAA08174@gvr.win.tue.nl>

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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> > 
> > What about an explicit entry for 'everyone'?
> > e.g. wheel:*:0:*
> > 
> > I'd much rather have people actively decide to allow su access than 
> > passively allow it.
> 
> 
> There are no wldcards allowed in the forup member field.

Guido, I'm curious.  Are there really (that you know of) shops that want
to be so free with root privs that they don't even need to know who has
them?  If there is, then I guess you're justified, but I wouldn't have
thought such existed.

> 
> -Guido
> 

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