[96209] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Virtualising a Linux system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igmar Palsenberg)
Sun Oct 25 12:02:57 1998
From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl>
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Cc: <sgarner@expio.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:09:47 +0100
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>Nope... I want to give less su privelages, not more!
>Just did a bit more research. I said "admin" group before, although I
>actually meant "wheel." I thought by saying "admin" it would simplify
>my description of the problem, although it probably served only to
>confuse the issue.
>Limiting "su" access to the wheel group would appear to be a >standard
>feature of other UNIXes, which has been removed from GNU su.
No . You can still do the same through PAM. I have PAM configured so that su
access to root is restricted to users who are member of the root group.
Works fine.
Solutions is to add the the pam_wheel.so module to /etc/pam.d/su
>Check this out:
Igmar Palsenberg
Cheers,
Simon Garner.
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