Will have to try this one out.... Falls short in other areas of group management but it's a good start. Thankyou
James On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 20:49, Michael Viron wrote: > 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 > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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