sux, an enhancer for su

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Apr 25 08:56:15 AEST 1991


In article <462 at frcs.UUCP> paul at frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes:
> I recently hacked up a fairly trivial enhancer for `su', that allows
> members of group `wheel' to su at will _without_ needing the root
> password.

Can you say security problem? I knew you could. My boss did something
like this until I talked him out of it.

You've now opened a whole new class of paths to the keys to the kingdom.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter at ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"



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