From: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow gid 0 in compaudit
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:32:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033766328YDF.fvw@jareth.var.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021004205233.GC33584@dan.emsphone.com>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:52:34PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> It implies that the person knows the password, yes. But until they
> actually su to root, they shouldn't get any extra permissions IMHO.
> Wheel just means "I can be root if I want", not "I am root".
Not "I am root", but I'd say it's something close to the debian
'staff'. You do get a few free goodies like reading logs as the plain
user, and there are some BSD sites that run with wheel having write on
quite some things... Still, better safe than sorry I guess.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-04 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 16:08 Frank v Waveren
2002-10-04 19:30 ` Dan Nelson
2002-10-04 20:39 ` Frank v Waveren
2002-10-04 20:42 ` Frank v Waveren
2002-10-04 20:52 ` Dan Nelson
2002-10-04 21:32 ` Frank v Waveren [this message]
2002-10-04 21:58 ` Frank v Waveren
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