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From: pato@APOLLO.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: su
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Date: 30 Jun 89 15:46:50 GMT
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    Oddly enough, I have both an Alliant FX/40 running BSD4.2 and
    
    and I can 'su' to root on both sets of machines *without*
    being a member of the 'wheel' group. There must be some
    other fairly wide-spread mechanism for setting up this
    access. All of our systems are standard distributions.
    We have not fooled with anything in the BSD packages
    that came with the machines.
    
    
     -- David Krowitz
    
    krowitz@richter.mit.edu   (18.83.0.109)
    krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu
    krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu
    krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet
    (in order of decreasing preference)
    
This behavior is part of BSD 4.3 not BSD 4.2 (therefore it exists in DOMAIN/OS
sr10.x and not in DOMAIN/IX sr9.X)

 Joe Pato
 Apollo Computer            A Subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard
 NSFNET: pato@apollo.com    UUCP: ...{attunix,uw-beaver,brunix}!apollo!pato

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