Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:15:12 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group Message-ID: <20021013181512.GB489@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021013140304.44458K-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <200210131745.g9DHjO01008151@grimreaper.grondar.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021013140304.44458K-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun Oct 13, 2002 at 02:04:24PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > Currently, it is, I believe. I was sure at one point that we supported a > mode of operation for su that allowed any user to su to root if the wheel > group was empty, and restricted it to the wheel group if it was non-empty. > That no longer appears to be the case on 5.0, and I haven't got a 4.x box > I can afford to shoot down to experiment with right now on that branch. FYI, 3 use cases on -stable: anarcat@lenny[~]% uname -a FreeBSD lenny.anarcat.ath.cx 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Sep 17 09:31:25 EDT 2002 anarcat@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LENNY i386 anarcat@lenny[~]% groups anarcat wheel anarcat@lenny[~]% su Password: lenny# grep wheel /etc/group wheel:*:0:root,anarcat lenny# anarcat@lenny[~]% groups anarcat operator cdrecord dos anarcat@lenny[~]% su Password: lenny# grep wheel /etc/group wheel:*:0: lenny# anarcat@lenny[~]% groups anarcat wheel operator cdrecord dos anarcat@lenny[~]% su su: you are not in the correct group (wheel) to su root. anarcat@lenny[~]% grep wheel /etc/group wheel:*:0:root anarcat@lenny[~]% -- From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qbgwttcWHAnWiGcRAuS9AJ9XWz619uWytPdN4xgXx+WWTru9sgCgngB8 O1ZXkXCNTRrov3EZF+vK8zA= =Lz4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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