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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 15:45:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/kerberos5/usr.bin/k5su Makefile
Message-ID:  <200205111945.g4BJjrbG011767@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200205111405.g4BE58T85035@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200205111405.g4BE58T85035@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Sat, 11 May 2002 07:05:08 -0700 (PDT), Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   Do not install this with set-user-ID bit set.  This utility does not
>   grok the `wheel' group.

That is by design.

Kerberos `su' to root is only supposed to depend on whether the user
can authenticate as the principal logname/root@MYREALM, and is listed
on root's ACL for the machine on which `su' is run.  This is a
stronger requirement than being in group `wheel'.

-GAWollman


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