Change su to the following permissions: -rwsr-x--- 1 root wheel 14112 Jan 16 2001 /bin/su
and you will get the *BSD-like behavior. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 08:47 AM 10/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: >That was an active philisophical decision to not implement the GNU su that >way. According to Free as In Freedom, Stallman had many ethical problems >with the password implementation. The weakened security of su was >intentional. > >You'd think there'd be a wheel-style su for GNU/Linux on Sourceforge >somewhere, but I don't know. > > >> Dave, >> >> Does have advantages, I just wish I could set Linux up to do su like >> FreeBSD does. ONLY the users put into group wheel can su to root. >> period. access to files is determined by the groups you are in. If >> wwww is the group for you web server and you aren't in www you can't see >> or change those files... Makes group management a bit more tricky and >> probably isn't very user friendly for a desktop. But on a server with >> 100's of users limiting those who can go to root to 1 or 2 makes >> security a lot easier to manage. >> >> James > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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