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)... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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