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- From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: su behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.212140.28626@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:21:40 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.155112.18068@engage.pko.dec.com> <KHERA.92Aug31132624@thneed.cs.duke.edu>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <KHERA.92Aug31132624@thneed.cs.duke.edu>, khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera) writes:
- From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
- Subject: Re: su behavior
- Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC
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- > now if you claim that just by being in group wheel, one has root
- > priveleges, then i suggest you find a good book on unix security and
- > read it.
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- I am not claiming this. I am saying that this is in fact what is happening.
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- Actually the reason, I discovered, that this is happening is that I gave it
- gid zero in /etc/password. This is what I thought was meant by putting it in
- the wheel group. Now I know I need to make its gid something else and simply
- list the user under wheel in /etc/groups.
-
- Eric
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