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Re: Admin group?



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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Philip Thiem wrote:

> 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

With the pamization of potato, IIRC you can just plug a wheel-group pam
module into the regular potato su. Of course, this doesn't help
immediately if you're staying with slink ;)


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