Re: [cobalt-security] can't su -

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Oleg Volkov wrote:

> On Monday 09 September 2002 20:36, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Pete Soderling wrote:
> > > Thanks for the help ... adding the user to the wheel group worked for me.
> > > Is this a standard 'nix thing that I was unaware of ... or is this a
> > > specific implementation of the Cube version of linux?
> >
> > That is standard *nix
> > I forgot about that one!
> >
> > Gerald
>
> Nope.
> It depends on pam definitions. None of Unixes (by default) deals
> with su for wheel only.
>
Correct, I should have qualified that.

Interesting what Stallman says about the wheel group!
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/sh-utils/su.1.html

Gerald