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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:29:27 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, guido@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1882
Message-ID:  <199702231229.NAA16824@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970223015009.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 23, 97 01:50:09 am"

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J Wunsch wrote:
> Btw., as i've read in NetBSD's recent ``What's new?'', they decided to
> special-case this one as ``anybody's allowed to su root''.  Just one
> point to consider.
> 

You mean they specified it in the manpage of su?

> (I don't thinkt it's a security flaw, since the default /etc/group
> ships with just root in group wheel.)

Neither do I. The behaviour has always been that if wheel is empty,
su will be possible for anyone.

-Guido



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