Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:00:47 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> Cc: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, ache@nagual.ru, guido@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su su.1 su.c Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225175743.3982B-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970225173550.3982A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>, Chuck > Robey writes: > >On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > > >> > > >> > What about an explicit entry for 'everyone'? > >> > e.g. wheel:*:0:* > >> > > >> > I'd much rather have people actively decide to allow su access than > >> > passively allow it. > >> > >> > >> There are no wldcards allowed in the forup member field. > > > >Guido, I'm curious. Are there really (that you know of) shops that want > >to be so free with root privs that they don't even need to know who has > >them? If there is, then I guess you're justified, but I wouldn't have > >thought such existed. > > It doesn't give them root-privs, it allows them to run su(1)... Isn't that virtually the same thing? Oh, you mean giving them su and NOT giving them the root password ... on all systems I've worked on, you only used su to gain root privs anyways. I guess thast was my question, if such a user group existed. If you're saying it does, them I guess I'm satisfied. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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