Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 01:50:09 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: guido@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1882 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970223015009.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702222340.PAA29998@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Mike Pritchard on Feb 22, 1997 15:40:00 -0800 References: <199702222340.PAA29998@freefall.freebsd.org>
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As Mike Pritchard wrote: > Synopsis: nobody can su when wheel group is empty > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->security-officer > Responsible-Changed-By: mpp > Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Feb 22 15:38:54 PST 1997 > Responsible-Changed-Why: Btw., as i've read in NetBSD's recent ``What's new?'', they decided to special-case this one as ``anybody's allowed to su root''. Just one point to consider. (I don't thinkt it's a security flaw, since the default /etc/group ships with just root in group wheel.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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