On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:59, KhoGuan PhuaN wrote:
>
> The security policy enforced by pam_wheel.so module is to grant
> privilege of su'ing to `both root and non-root' only to people
> in a privileged group(default wheel group, if not found, group with
> gid=0). I think it's overkilling. The reasoning is as follows:
>
> 1. It should do just what it claims to do: "only permit root
> authentication to members of wheel group", but no more. That is,
> leave non-root authentication alone.
> Should I file a `bug' report? Or do I over-sympathize with the dummy
> users who are always messing things up. Any suggestion and correction
> would be highly appreciated.
As a general rule, if the documentation and the actual behaviour don't
match, file a bug report requesting that either the documentation or the
behaviour be changed. It's a bug, the question is whether it's a docs
bug or a code bug.
Jenn V.
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