On 10/1/2000 Ernest Johanson wrote:
Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me as I am getting the digest. Thanks in advance.
secure-su is obsolete because potato uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), for whatever feature you need in su you only need to find a PAM module for and add it to the /etc/pam.d/su file.
for example to enable the BSD style wheel group add: auth required pam_wheel.so to the beginning of /etc/pam.d/suI don't know what else secure-su does but you should be able to replicate all or almost all functionality with currently available pam modules. if there is something you cannot do then a new pam module is all that is required to implement it.
-- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/