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Re: GNU su and the wheel group
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Sam Holden |
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Re: GNU su and the wheel group |
Date: |
5 Oct 2004 03:42:20 GMT |
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:25:49 -0400, Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
><telford@xenon.triode.net.au> wrote:
>> [root]# ls -l /bin/su
>> -rwsr-x--- 1 root wheel 94625 Oct 12 2003 /bin/su
>>
>> Now only members of the wheel group can run su... how exciting!
>
> And I would say that this itself makes a better argument against
> having code in su to check for the wheel group. Less code to verify
> is good, especially in such a security-sensitive program.
What about the poor souls who want to su from one user account to
another?
--
Sam Holden
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