Hi, Bob! Thanks for going into such informative depth in your response. Here is the output of our sh:
# su --version su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I checked just in case for some strange reason, we got the man page for the GNU su but were running something else in actuality. Now that I think about it, yeah: if su is using the presiding authentication method on a system (such as PAM in my case), it could be that PAM required the 'wheel' group membership. I will read up on PAM's documentation to see how clearly someone could make the connection that in order for PAM to allow su-type functions, a user has to be in 'wheel'. It didn't occur to me that su was dependant on PAM but now that I think of it, anything authenticating with the UNIX password files would need PAM or whatever else the OS was using. Thank you again. --- Dairenn Lombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BroadSpire Systems Administration Dept. Thursdays-Mondays: 5pm-2am "Automation, Scalability and Security"
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