Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:29:27 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, guido@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1882 Message-ID: <199702231229.NAA16824@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970223015009.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 23, 97 01:50:09 am"
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J Wunsch wrote: > Btw., as i've read in NetBSD's recent ``What's new?'', they decided to > special-case this one as ``anybody's allowed to su root''. Just one > point to consider. > You mean they specified it in the manpage of su? > (I don't thinkt it's a security flaw, since the default /etc/group > ships with just root in group wheel.) Neither do I. The behaviour has always been that if wheel is empty, su will be possible for anyone. -Guido
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