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+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
+