Misleading message in 'su' info document

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Aug 19 12:50:02 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:24, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> I'm sure by now most of you have read the "Why GNU 'su' does not support
> the 'wheel' group" rant from RMS written years ago.  If you have not
> seen it yet do a quick 'info su' and scroll down to the bottom.
> 
> What surprises me is this has not been pulled from the 'su' info page
> years(?) after pam_wheel showed up in pam.  The statement that GNU 'su'
> does not support the 'wheel' group may be technically true in the form
> shipped by the GNU but it is misleading when used in Red Hat.  If I were
> looking for wheel support and decided to check the su info page (as
> suggested by the su man page) I would have read this statement and may
> never have figured out the functionality was actually being provided!
> 
> In my opinion such historical baggage is harmful and should be pulled
> from at least Red Hat's copy of the 'su' info page.
> 
> Any opinions?

I suspect this is just an oversight.  Have you filed a bugzilla bug?

--Jeremy

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