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author | Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> | 2002-08-14 14:16:49 +0000 |
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committer | Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> | 2002-08-14 14:16:49 +0000 |
commit | e6603834a88456d0a59557d165841ab8a7539a82 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/digest-sh-utils-2.0.14 b/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/digest-sh-utils-2.0.14 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eab0cf0a83c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/digest-sh-utils-2.0.14 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MD5 ceef9e05bbaa5893c5eafea2b424eb83 sh-utils-2.0.14.tar.gz 2132852 diff --git a/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/sh-utils-2.0.14-gentoo.diff b/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/sh-utils-2.0.14-gentoo.diff new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f242fd47c91d --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-apps/sh-utils/files/sh-utils-2.0.14-gentoo.diff @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +diff -urN sh-utils-2.0.14.old/doc/coreutils.texi sh-utils-2.0.14/doc/coreutils.texi +--- sh-utils-2.0.14.old/doc/coreutils.texi Sun Aug 4 06:45:50 2002 ++++ sh-utils-2.0.14/doc/coreutils.texi Wed Aug 14 06:51:22 2002 +@@ -11019,8 +11019,7 @@ + @findex syslog + @command{su} can optionally be compiled to use @code{syslog} to report + failed, and optionally successful, @command{su} attempts. (If the system +-supports @code{syslog}.) However, GNU @command{su} does not check if the +-user is a member of the @code{wheel} group; see below. ++supports @code{syslog}.) + + The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. + +@@ -11091,33 +11090,6 @@ + + @end table + +-@cindex wheel group, not supported +-@cindex group wheel, not supported +-@cindex fascism +-@heading Why GNU @command{su} does not support the @samp{wheel} group +- +-(This section is by Richard Stallman.) +- +-@cindex Twenex +-@cindex MIT AI lab +-Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the +-rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to +-seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and +-keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup +-and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I +-wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.) +- +-However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual +-@command{su} mechanism, once someone learns the root password who +-sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The +-``wheel group'' feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the +-power of the rulers. +- +-I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are +-used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you +-might find this idea strange at first. +- +- + @node Process control + @chapter Process control + |