Re: [Security-Discuss] 2006 su problem

On Monday 17 Oct 2005 18:47, Erwann Robin wrote:
> look at /etc/pam.d/su.
> you will find a line :
> auth       sufficient   pam_succeed_if.so use_uid user ingroup wheel
>
> it was commented in the previous version but has been activated in
> the 2006
> LE2005 version :
> # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the
> "wheel" group.
> #auth       sufficient   pam_wheel.so trust use_uid
>
That explains it.  So I have the choice of commenting that line out or 
removing myself from the wheel group.  What else would I lose by 
cutting that group out?  I'll go that way if there is no big problem.

Anne
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