Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:16:41 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000210171108.34380C-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000210153218.C17536@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > actually, it does support a wheel group: > > chown root:wheel /bin/su > chmod 4750 /bin/su > Not quite the same. The BSD su(1) lets non-wheel users use su(1) to non-root accounts. This is handy for things like application admins, who don't need root priveleges, but do things as someone else. > Cobalt is also cool because older versions leaked root's .bash_history. heh. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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