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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Using su under SCO 3.2.2
Message-ID: <1943@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 03:51:09 GMT
References: <13538@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <13538@netcom.UUCP> netnews@netcom.UUCP (USENET Administration) writes:
| We can't seem to use /bin/su for anything more than su-ing to root.
| Can't su to any other uid (it asks for a password, but always fails,
| as if the password were wrong).  Is this typical of C2 security?  Any way
| around it?

  I think there's something in admin which gets by this, but it's
definitely C2ish. I can live better with too much security than too
little.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me