Re: GNU su and the wheel group

[Paul Jarc]

<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