On Thursday 14 December 2000 15:02, you wrote:

> > basically what I want to do is allow only people who belong to the wheel
> group, to be able to use the command su.
>
> as for the getpass_asterisks, it means it will echo 3 asterisks for each
> keystroke when you're entering your password. just to confuse you and
> anyone else looking over your shoulder :)
>
> I'm not paranoid.. :).
>
For those things, you can  use linuxconf which is accessible from drakconf.  
You can get more fine-grained than that if you like with settings for 
privileges per user as well as privileges per group.  And a user can belong 
to several groups.

Civileme


> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 December 2000 09:12 am, you wrote:
> > > > I have question about the /etc/login.defs that ships with mdk 7.2
> > >
> > > how come when I enter the following lines :
> > >
> > > SU_WHEEL_ONLY   yes
> > > GETPASS_ASTERISKS 3
> > >
> > > they are ignored ? I've been a slack user for 5 yrs now, they work fine
> > > in slack.. I'm guessing it has to do with diff versions of login being
> > > used.. so does anyone know what he equivalents are for mdk ?
> > >
> > > secondly.. does anyone have a policy file for Tripwire ? the default
> > > tripwire gives is for mostly rhat systems..
> >
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> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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> > Sombody explain what wheel is fo me?? Puleez..

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