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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:57:29 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        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:  <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:37:34 EST." <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225173550.3982A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> 

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In message <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225173550.3982A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>, Chuck 
Robey writes:
>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.

It doesn't give them root-privs, it allows them to run su(1)...

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