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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
- Subject: Re: Ultrix UPGRADE npasswd -- serious bug fixed
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- Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:17:50 GMT
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- shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
- > is npasswd able to deal with NIS password files
-
- Yes, we use it here with NIS. Our NIS master and clients are both Ultrix
- 4.2.
-
- > second question is why has Ultrix not implemented the whell group
- > [where you can specify which users can do 'su root' and which can
- > not]??
-
- Dunno. I replaced it with the BSD version of su and it works great with the
- "wheel" group (or the "system" group in Ultrix). Get it from:
-
- ftp.uu.net:/packages/bsd-sources/usr.bin/su
-
- I was in a BSD mode for a while and attempted to change the name of group 0
- to "wheel". However, I found that lots of Ultrix installation programs
- (like setld stuff, /usr/bin/install, etc) rely on group 0 being "system".
- So I changed it back to "system". Sigh.
-
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