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forth (all with a "g" prepended to their names). With the approval of the submitter, I've disabled the suid bit on gsu by default, with a note to users that they should review the philosophy behind GNU su: Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group =============================================== (This section is by Richard Stallman.) 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 `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. PR: 21884 Submitted by: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> Reviewed by: submitter Approved by: silence on -ports regarding category
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The Free Software Foundation's "sh" utilities, including "basename",
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"chroot", "date", "dirname", "echo", "env", "expr", "false",
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"groups", "hostid", "hostname", "id", "logname", "nice", "nohup",
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"pathchk", "pinky", "printenv", "printf", "pwd", "sleep", "stty",
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"su", "tee", "test", "true", "tty", "uname", "users", "who",
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"whoami", and "yes".
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Similar utilities to most of these exist in the FreeBSD base system,
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but many of the GNU versions have added functionality that is
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useful.
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Note that this port will install these utilities with a `g' prefix,
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for example gdate, gexpr, or gtest, but the texinfo documentation
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will refer to them without the `g' prefix.
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GNU su does not support a wheel group. This port installs it
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without the suid bit, unless you define WITH_SUID while building.
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Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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