From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 19:40:11 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 19:40:03 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C1737B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:40:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f043WrM26051; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:32:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <024d01c07601$6de2d140$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: , References: <8c.ac9607.278548f5@aol.com> Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:49:21 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0243_01C07655.246265E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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
A user can only run su if the = particular user is in=20 group "wheel"
 
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,
or preferably use something like sudo = so you have=20 more control over what users
can do 
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It saids i cant su from = this account,=20 i cant remember what group it had to
be, what group is it?=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0243_01C07655.246265E0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message