Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:57:24 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com>, Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000815114052.57869B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000815164645.D39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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