From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 9:58:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9084737B505 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27944; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:57:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:57:24 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: j mckitrick Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Christopher S. Weimann" , Olaf Hoyer , David Kelly , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux In-Reply-To: <20000815164645.D39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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 Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: :On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: :| If I got root, you don't have an sulog. Funny how that works, eh? : :So you mean that with the wheel group, you always know who su'ed, while :under the linux model, this is not true. Do i understand correctly? : : I have a machine, a set of trusted users, a much larger set of regular users, and a root password that everyone knows. In the RMS model of the world, I have no idea who has su'd. In the BSD wheel group model, I can be reasonably certain the set of people who have. Mind you, that's no way to run a machine, but the principal holds true anyways. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message