Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:49:21 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <MaTrIxDPN@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <024d01c07601$6de2d140$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <8c.ac9607.278548f5@aol.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0243_01C07655.246265E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A user can only run su if the particular user is in group "wheel" As I understand it, having anyone in the wheel group is not considered = good practice anymore, at least add the users to another group & then = add the group to wheel,=20 or preferably use something like sudo so you have more control over what = users can do=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: MaTrIxDPN@aol.com=20 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: (no subject) It saids i cant su from this account, i cant remember what group it = had to=20 be, what group is it?=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0243_01C07655.246265E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A user can only run su if the = particular user is in=20 group "wheel"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As I understand it, having anyone = in the wheel=20 group is not considered good practice anymore, at least add the = users=20 to another group & then add the group to wheel, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>or preferably use something like sudo = so you have=20 more control over what users</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>can do</FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3DMaTrIxDPN@aol.com=20 href=3D"mailto:MaTrIxDPN@aol.com">MaTrIxDPN@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20 title=3Dfreebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 = href=3D"mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.O= RG</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 04, = 2001 1:33=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: (no subject)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT lang=3D0 = face=3D"Trebuchet MS"=20 color=3D#0080ff size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF">It saids i cant su from = this account,=20 i cant remember what group it had to <BR>be, what group is it?</FONT>=20 </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0243_01C07655.246265E0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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