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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:44:50 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: su root broken in -CURRENT 
Message-ID:  <3685.996569090@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:35:00 %2B0100." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107310513010.29718-100000@elm.phenome.org> 

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:35:00 +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> The FreeBSD 4.3 manpage says:
>      Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to
>      ``root''.   If group 0 is missing or empty, any user can su to
>      ``root''.

I guess that could (at a stretch) be interpreted the same as OpenBSD's
behaviour.

I guess I'll withdraw my complaint, since it just boils down to "the
behaviour changed!" now.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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