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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:29:22 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1882
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970223212922.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199702232008.VAA00485@gvr.win.tue.nl>; from Guido van Rooij on Feb 23, 1997 21:08:14 %2B0100
References:  <199702231337.PAA29102@grackle.grondar.za> <199702232008.VAA00485@gvr.win.tue.nl>

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As Guido van Rooij wrote:

> WHEELSU completely disables checking for who's in wheel.

No. :-) It completely disables asking for the root password, and gets
away with the user's password instead.  Of course, it would combine
_very badly_ with the ``empty wheel group means anybody can su root''
feature. ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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