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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:16:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why I Don't Do Linux
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000210171108.34380C-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000210153218.C17536@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> actually, it does support a wheel group:
> 
> chown root:wheel /bin/su
> chmod 4750 /bin/su
> 

Not quite the same.  The BSD su(1) lets non-wheel users use su(1) to
non-root accounts.  This is handy for things like application admins, who
don't need root priveleges, but do things as someone else.

> Cobalt is also cool because older versions leaked root's .bash_history.

heh.

David



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