Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, 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: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970225152537.202A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199702252305.AAA08462@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > 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. > > > > > Yes. See the PR ;-) > > -Guido > I have to take a minute to through in my 2 cents here. After working in the EDP Audit Department for a major bank in the US, the thought of a co. not knowing who has access to root privs is a little frightening. What's the co.'s reasoning for this kind of setup? I would hope it's *NOT* a mission critical, production box. Email: bsampley@best.com Alternate Email: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley
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