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Re: Su && Development Packages



On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Brian Clark <brianj@ais.ais-gwd.com> wrote:
> >I ended up just adding sysadmin to staff, then
> >
> >% /bin/chgrp staff /bin/su; /bin/chmod 4750 /bin/su
> 
> Make sure you let suidmanager know about that (using suidregister) or
> you might find /bin/su's permissions changing back next time you upgrade
> the login package.

sooner then that, you will find the permissions changed back the next
time cron.daily get fired off ;-)

suidregister /bin/su root staff 4754

should do the trick.  i don't see the point in making su non-readable
just non-executable.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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