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Re: [PATCH] Allow gid 0 in compaudit

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Frank v Waveren <fvw@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow gid 0 in compaudit
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:30:13 -0500
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In the last episode (Oct 04), Frank v Waveren said:
> Attached is a patch to have compaudit (called by compaudit) not
> complain about directories owned by wheel, is there any chance of
> having it applied? I can't think of any systems where gid 0 can't be
> trusted...

Lots of users can be in wheel; on BSD systems you can't su to root
unless you're in wheel.  A group-writable directory with a gid of wheel
is in the "iffy" category.  I'd lean toward leaving the warning as is.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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