From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 10 15:17:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFB74471 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA63448; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:16:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:16:41 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux In-Reply-To: <20000210153218.C17536@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 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