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Re: [discuss] 2.4.19.33mdk kernel update & ps aux

From: Vincent Danen (vdanenmandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 10:23:10 CDT

On Tue Apr 15, 2003 at 09:58:16AM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:

> > Ahhh... so wheel is a little magical in Mandrake yet for some unknown
> > reason. FYI, you don't need to be in the wheel group to su in Mandrake
> > except maybe in the higher msec levels (not sure of that tho). I always
> > strip the suid bit off su and grant access via sudo, so I've never used the
> > wheel group myself.
>
> Msec 5 makes use of the wheel group to control su access.

Right... good point, Mark.

/me has to revise the msec docs on MandrakeSecure to bring them up to date
for 9.1.

One of these days... =)

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