Re: [cobalt-users] SU from user other than a member of wheel

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:43 AM 2/2/02, you wrote:
> I thought that to be able to SU to root, that a particular user had to be 
> a member of the group wheel?
>
> I've always forgotten about this, and many times I've kicked myself on the 
> raq3s and been told this by an error prompt.
>
> However, I've not tried this since installing SSH on particular box, and 
> not it allows me to SU from just about anyone...  any ideas why?
>
> tia
>
> Greg

Hi Greg,

On my RaQ2, only wheel users can su to root. .. _but_ if you're first 
logged in as one of the wheel members, _then_ you su to another user...(not 
a wheel member) .._then_ su to root, it is allowed. Your session still 
belongs to admin. Test this by logging in as a non-wheel member directly, 
they try to su root..it shouldn't work. Then login at admin, su another 
user, su root and see if you get to root...you probably will get root.

HTH,
Diana
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