From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 23 13:04:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02279 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02273; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.5/8.8.2) id WAA00728; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:03:10 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199702232103.WAA00728@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: bin/1882 In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Feb 23, 97 09:29:22 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:03:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: mark@grondar.za, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > 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. ;-) Really? What a strange name for the define then.. -Guido