ws@kurt.tools.DE (Wolfgang Solfrank) writes:
>> mynhier@cs.utk.EDU (Chad Mynhier) writes:
>> >	What is the difference between adding a user to /etc/su.conf
>> >and adding the user to the wheel group?
>> The former doesn't give that user write access to wheel owned files
>> and directories.

>Huh?  Those users can su, so they can do anything to your system anyway,
>including write to wheel owned files.

You've got it backwards.  If you put a user in group wheel she gets
write access to wheel owned files and directories whether she knows
the root password or not.  You don't have that problem with
/etc/su.conf (or /etc/susers as it's named on my systems).


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