Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:26:47 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>, "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: <9702260126.AA16071@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225173550.3982A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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<<On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:57:29 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> said: >> 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. > It doesn't give them root-privs, it allows them to run su(1)... No. It allows them to run su(1) to become root. To become another ordinary user, wheel group membership has never been required. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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