Subject: Re: su(1) group wheel restriction
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/10/1997 12:59:28
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:48:46 -0800 (PST) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:

 > > If you want data to be sourced from files, yp, dns, whatever, then we
 > > should just use the nsswitch(*) library I've written.  All you'd do
 > > is add an entry to /etc/nsswitch.conf of the form:
 > > 	su:  yp files
 > 
 > How do we deal with including and excluding various netgroups with
 > this method?

...exactly my question... In the passwd and group categories, the nsswitch
implementation has a "compat" mode... I'd want this for the su category,
as well...

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