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Date:      Sat, 11 May 2002 17:36:25 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/kerberos5/usr.bin/k5su Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020511223625.GC60845@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200205111945.g4BJjrbG011767@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200205111405.g4BE58T85035@freefall.freebsd.org> <200205111945.g4BJjrbG011767@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:45:53PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<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.

Right, I indicated this in a private follow-up to jmallet.
 
> 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'.

The Heimdal `su' doesn't work that way.  It works like `su' on most
non-BSD systems.

However, this utility will be going away, so I'm not bothering with it
much.  It just won't go away in time for 4.6-RELEASE.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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