Re: GNU su and the wheel group

[Sam Holden]

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