From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF9337B610 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:06:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7FH2af83392; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:02:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: David Scheidt Cc: j mckitrick , Alfred Perlstein , "Christopher S. Weimann" , Olaf Hoyer , David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux In-Reply-To: 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, David Scheidt mumbled: > 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. It also helps prevent Joe User from trying to hack away at the root password (that is if they don't know it). // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message