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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970225152537.202A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> from Burton Sampley at "Feb 25, 97 03:33:33 pm"
To: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 13:56:13 +0100 (MET)
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Burton Sampley wrote:
> 
> I have to take a minute to through in my 2 cents here.  After working in 
> the EDP Audit Department for a major bank in the US, the thought of a co. 
> not knowing who has access to root privs is a little frightening.  What's 
> the co.'s reasoning for this kind of setup?  I would hope it's *NOT* a 
> mission critical, production box.
> 

It isn't. Further, you should notice that with the default setup that
FreeBSD ships with, only root is allowed to su. So you explicitly
have to enable this `feature'.

-Guido