From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8220 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 21:13:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 21:13:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 18629 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 21:13:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 17766 Received: (qmail 18614 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 21:13:51 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:52:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Frank v Waveren Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow gid 0 in compaudit Message-ID: <20021004205233.GC33584@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1033747042SCQ.fvw@jareth.var.cx> <20021004193012.GA33584@dan.emsphone.com> <1033763915OMK.fvw@jareth.var.cx> <1033764006QTC.fvw@jareth.var.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1033764006QTC.fvw@jareth.var.cx> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i In the last episode (Oct 04), Frank v Waveren said: > Replying to myself (netiquette be damned :P), the fact that on a BSD > system one is in wheel implies that the person in question has the > root password, no? So those people should be pretty trusted anyway. 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". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com