Jason,
Well finally the development group let me in on their secret (not a real
friendly bunch).
Instead of su they have implemented something called sudo, I've never
heard of it before.
It's kewl.
Happy T-day,
Bucky
PS Let's see if this post takes less than 24 hours to appear on the list
since I edited my .netscape files
Jason wrote:
>
> Bucky Goldstein wrote:
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> >
> > Does anybody know how I can get su to work?
>
> What su are you using???
>
> --
>
> Why GNU su does not support the wheel group (by Richard Stallman)
> Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the
> rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to
> seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex
> system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to
> thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the
> kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)
>
> However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su
> mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with
> the ordinary users, he can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature
> would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.
> I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you
> are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do,
> you might find this idea strange at first.
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