From owner-cvs-usrbin Tue Feb 25 17:34:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02667 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02431; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA16071; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:26:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:26:47 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9702260126.AA16071@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Chuck Robey , Guido van Rooij , "Daniel O'Callaghan" , 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: <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com> References: <7423.856911449@critter.dk.tfs.com> Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> 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. > It doesn't give them root-privs, it allows them to run su(1)... No. It allows them to run su(1) to become root. To become another ordinary user, wheel group membership has never been required. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick