Re: Admin group?

[Philip Thiem <ptt@umr.edu>]

Brad wrote:
> The way wheel works is that any user can use su, but only users in the
> wheel group are allowed to su to root (uid 0). Your suggestion will not
> let any user besides those in adm use su at all (which may be what you
> want).
> 
> The programs that don't support wheel then are ones that don't have the
> code for checking the group membership.

I would recommend secure-su then.
and used in the configuration file
root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP [wheel|adm] DENY

Philip Thiem


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