can't su as user

[Bucky Goldstein]

Jason wrote:
> 
> Bucky Goldstein wrote:
[snip]
> > Does anybody know how I can get su to work?
> 
> What su are you using???

Fascinating story really, thanks for your quick reply.

Apparently su is a part of binutils and this was a upgrade that I
installed.  The developers are now telling me that something is wrong
with su.  So I found my answer about that.

I just tried to set up a wheel account to see if it would work and it
didn't.  I'm sure it's because of this GNU philosophy and that's fine
with me.

Again thanks for your help.

Happy Holidays,

Bucky
 
> --
> 
>  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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