From owner-cvs-usrbin Tue Feb 25 15:45:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25074 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy1.ba.best.com (root@proxy1.ba.best.com [206.184.139.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25066; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy1.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA13700; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:34:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: Guido van Rooij cc: Chuck Robey , 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 In-Reply-To: <199702252305.AAA08462@gvr.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > 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. > > > > > Yes. See the PR ;-) > > -Guido > I have to take a minute to through in my 2 cents here. After working in the EDP Audit Department for a major bank in the US, the thought of a co. not knowing who has access to root privs is a little frightening. What's the co.'s reasoning for this kind of setup? I would hope it's *NOT* a mission critical, production box. Email: bsampley@best.com Alternate Email: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley