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From: | Paul Jarc |
Subject: | Re: GNU su and the wheel group |
Date: | Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:25:49 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
<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. paul
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