Subject: Re: su(1) group wheel restriction
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/10/1997 02:16:00
mynhier@cs.utk.EDU (Chad Mynhier) writes:
> What is the difference between adding a user to /etc/su.conf
>and adding the user to the wheel group?
The former doesn't give that user write access to wheel owned files
and directories.
It seem that quite a couple a number of directories belong to group
wheel. You'd also have to consider that a stock NetBSD doesn't set a
sensible umask for root.
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Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
You don't need to quote my .signature. Everyone has seen it by now.
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