Re: Where is old "info su" which had RMS comment ??
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:44:58AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:36:17AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> > > Does anyone know where is the famous "su" info page by RMS?
> > >
> > > I know it is useless with PAM version of "su" but fun to keep as a
> > > historical record of GNU.
> >
> > It is in the sh-utils info page.
> >
> > Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group
> > ===============================================
> >
> > (This section is by Richard Stallman.)
> [..]
>
> Ahh, so GNU su is less secure because Richard Stallman, in his infinite
> wisdom, believes security is a bad thing and that any lowlife h4x0r should
> be able to gain root priveleges and trash the system. This explains so
> much about the GNU philosophy that I am overwhelmed by its greatness!
You have to also understand that this was written probably 15 years ago,
when the Internet was but a dot on the h4x0r scope, who were mainly on
BBS's.
His comments were based on a political system in large businesses and
universities, where control of the mainframe (not random shoebox-sized
computers running quake servers) was a power play.
It's a different world now...
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