From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 1:55:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFBA37B40A for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 01:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D824D66D0A; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 01:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 01:55:40 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: really nice FreeBSD security feature.... Message-ID: <20010909015540.A49564@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010909063354.18839.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010909063354.18839.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:33:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:33:54PM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote: > This isn't news to anyone. I'm pretty sure everyone knows about it. >=20 > I want to know the history behind if it anyone cares to share. >=20 > I've noticed, in order to use the su command you need to be part of the > wheel group. While this may seem pretty insignificant I think it's an > AWESOME feature. >=20 > I haven't noticed this feature with Solaris or Linux...=20 >=20 > Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD was designed like this... and why > other's haven't followed suite? There's a big screed by RMS somewhere about how root wants to be free and how he hax0red su back in his salad days to allow anyone to su to root..I guess that's why Linnex does it. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7my6MWry0BWjoQKURAgZTAJ4k8wXfUkj9YgsjE6x1Os1moLnOvACfT+Sn 8OlbedWEwj5VKOx9GJTf9yE= =YWg+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message