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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!irenaeus.mlo.dec.com!eje From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) Subject: su behavior Message-ID: <1992Aug31.155112.18068@engage.pko.dec.com> Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Reply-To: ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:51:12 GMT Lines: 22 I noticed something unusual, at least to me, about su behavior on 386bsd. I've used Ultrix in the past, Suns too, and they allow you to su on any terminal. But 386bsd insists that the only ones who can su are those who are in the group "wheel". This is pretty stupid, though, because when I put my user in group wheel, I automatically had root privileges!! This totally defeats the purpose of su! If you are allowed to su, then you don't need to because you already have root access!!! Is this standard behavior for su? What is the reasoning behind this? Of course if I don't like it I can just hack it and recompile it ;-) Eric -- /=============================================================================\ | Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-| | Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; | | ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). | \==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/