From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 23 05:21:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA09510 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA09503; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA21892; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:21:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08397; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:01:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:01:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1882 References: <199702231229.NAA16824@gvr.win.tue.nl> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702231229.NAA16824@gvr.win.tue.nl>; from Guido van Rooij on Feb 23, 1997 13:29:27 +0100 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Guido van Rooij wrote: > > (I don't thinkt it's a security flaw, since the default /etc/group > > ships with just root in group wheel.) > > Neither do I. The behaviour has always been that if wheel is empty, > su will be possible for anyone. Are you sure? The PR (see subject) seems to tell otherwise, and even suggests a patch to get exact this behaviour. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)