>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:13:12 -0500 (EST)
>From: Hacksaw <hacksaw@user1.channel1.com>
>
>>>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:53:14 -0500
>>>From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>

>>>	* Allow anyone to su to root if gid 0 exists and has no
>>>	  members.  Since NetBSD ships with root explicitly belonging
>>>	  to group wheel, the default behavior will not change.

>I think this is a bad solution, for the simple reason that I use wheel
>as a "Power Users" group, so that those in the know can install into
>/usr/local/ and whatnot. Since not much gets shipped as being owned by
>group wheel, this affords fewer surprises for me the sys-admin.

It's easy enough to create and use another group for that; you don't
need to use wheel.  That's the whole *point* of the group mechanism,
to give various overlapping sets of users permission to do specific
things.

I don't see any need to fix something that isn't really broken.
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