Permissions needed to run 'su'
The MaD ScIeNTiSt
navarra at casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Tue Mar 26 11:31:37 AEST 1991
In article <4880 at lib.tmc.edu> dct at mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David C. Tuttle) writes:
>I administer a Sun 3/110 running 4.0.3 (still... :-) and have a small
>mystery on my hands. I think it's got a simple answer - I just don't know
>what it is.
>
>Today, I found that I could not "su" to root from my no-special-privileges
>account (i.e., an account not in the "wheel" group). My administrator
>account (in the "wheel" group) was not affected. Now, I wonder what I (or
>someone else?) have done to cause this. And more generally, what does one
>do to implement/deimplement this level of security (we have an Alliant
>that has never allowed what the Sun allowed routinely... until now).
>
>The part of TFM where I expected to find the answer says nothing useful.
>I'd appreciate an e-mail from someone who knows what controls this.
>Thanks!
Under versions of 4.2BSD or later, only users in the wheel group
listed in /etc/groups are allowed to su to root. --
check out su2 though -- that might work from you other account.
>
>--
>David C. Tuttle dct at mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu
>Software Systems Specialist Department of Biomathematics
>University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas
--
>From the Lab of the MAd ScIenTisT....
navarra at casbah.acns.nwu.edu
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