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Article #712shellutils-1.7/su
From: Marty Leisner 311/? x?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:29
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:29
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I'm not sure why a wheel group is considered fascist? Perhaps define the behavior of su to: With a certain option, look for a user in the wheel group, and prompt for the logname password. This will let su look for a wheel group and user passwords, or just su normally... This is an issue of whether to have passwords on computers...a modest level of security is reasonable so people don't do stupid things (a little knowledge is very dangerous). Of course, if you're malicious, security is just a nuisance... "a
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!eso.mc.xerox.COM!leisner From: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.COM (Marty Leisner 311/? x?) Subject: shellutils-1.7/su Message-ID: <9209011629.AA19389@louvre.wbst147.xerox.com> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com Organization: Xerox Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:29:16 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 12