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Re: Bug 26827 again (about secure-su)



On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 08:45:44AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> I could have gotten that much from the description line. :) What I was
> trying to get at is, "is that it?" Because if the only advantage secure-su
> has is that it restricts who can use it, how is installing gnu-su
> parallel to secure-su going to accomplish anything but nullifying
> secure-su's only advantage?

You're right of course. Argh! Never really thought about it.

So what do we do? I think we should move gnu-su out of fileutils into its
own package and make the two su packages conflict with each other.

Which package need gnu-su features btw?

Michael
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