On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:04:19AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Alternatively you could read the man page for su, specially
> the following parts:
> 

I'm afraid I haven't upgraded to 2.0, nor do I run -current so these 
things aren't in my local manpages ;)

>      SU_ROOTAUTH        If defined, it specifies a group whose members are
>                         allowed to become ``root'' by supplying their own
>                         password instead of the ``root'' one.
> 
>      SU_INDIRECT_GROUP  If defined, the SU_GROUP and SU_ROOTAUTH groups are
>                         treated as indirect groups.  The group members of
>                         those two groups are treated as groups themselves.

I may look into these when I upgrade, but that shall be a few months.  I 
may use SU_GROUP to change wheel to some group only in my NIS database, 
rather than try and add to /etc/group.  I'm still waffling over whether or 
not it's a good idea.

Thanks,

Clark
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