From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 8:34:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DC037BDFD for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA23279; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:13 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA08998; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Linh Pham Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > How does the wheel group enforce accountability? Doesn't disabling remote > > root logins (thus requiring 'su) produce an audit trial, thus enforcing > > accountability? > > The wheel group pretty much allows sysadmins restrict who can su into > root (since only people within the wheel group can su to root under > BSD). And that is a good thing... I certainly don't want someone coming along who dosen't know what they're doing and 'fixing' my configuration files. I've spent too much time and sweat getting things working to have to do it all over. It's not a matter of 'the bosses want to restrict who's doing what,' It's a matter of 'I'm not going to spend that time again to fix the problem you created and that is causing us downtime.' Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message