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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:08:14 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1882
Message-ID:  <199702232008.VAA00485@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199702231337.PAA29102@grackle.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Feb 23, 97 03:37:39 pm"

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> > 
> > Are you sure?  The PR (see subject) seems to tell otherwise, and even
> > suggests a patch to get exact this behaviour.
> 
> When in doubt, RTSL. There is a define that you can frob in su
> to turn this on/off - WHEELSU.

That's not the issue here. What is wanted is that wheel, when non-empty
determines if you can su to root. When it is empty, su should not
pose any limits on who can su to root.

WHEELSU completely disables checking for who's in wheel.

-Guido



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