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.. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; name="message.footer" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- > > Sombody explain what wheel is fo me?? Puleez.. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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