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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: su root broken in -CURRENT 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:35:00 +0100."
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:35:00 +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> The FreeBSD 4.3 manpage says:
>      Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to
>      ``root''.   If group 0 is missing or empty, any user can su to
>      ``root''.

I guess that could (at a stretch) be interpreted the same as OpenBSD's
behaviour.

I guess I'll withdraw my complaint, since it just boils down to "the
behaviour changed!" now.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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