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i have RedHat 5.1 with shadow 971001 and su suports a wheel
group..
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> Unfortunately, since the Linux tools don't support a wheel group, you can
> hack root from any account on the system, instead of being able to restrict
> your vulnerability to certain accounts.
>
> I love this one from the "su" man page:
>
> "This program does not support a "wheel group" that
> restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that
> can help fascist system administrators hold unwarranted
> power over other users."
>
> Totally inappropriate for an operating system that is going to be used in
> production environments. This wording should remain only if this version of
> su is only going to be used by hobbiests to play with.
>
> The wording, and the problem, should be removed from distributions targetted
> at businesses, such as RedHat and Caldera.
>
> If you want to have that wording, let's let it say what it really means:
>
> "This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su to
> super-user accounts, because that can help the owner of a system keep
> control of his property away from my 3l33t3 haquer budz, d00d."
>
>
>
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