IIRC, wheel was intended to match the GID on su, so that non-group members cannot even become root, a hardening tactic that goes along with disallowing any direct root logins.
Why not make wheel? You'll feel so evolved; groupadd wheel and grunt with glee ;) (then again, what good is wheel if you don't use it?) Good place to have some fun with system standard, make your wheel a block, heh heh. I remember at first I had trouble shaking the naive idea that it had something to do with ZAxizMapping... the mouse scroll wheel -- unrelated. ben On 4/3/07, Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why would I? I thought wheel was just an example group for within the sudoers file. wheel doesn't even exist on my system. roger wrote: > Forgive me if I'm wrong on this one, but maybe you also need to be > within the group "wheel" (/etc/groups)? > > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:31 -0700, Martin Kelly wrote: >> Including that line (and none else regarding my user) makes it so I'm >> not able to run any commands as sudo. >> >> If I include both that line and the "martin ALL = (ALL) ALL" line, I am >> able to run all commands without a password. >> >> roger wrote: >>> Include the following within your /etc/sudoers and replace "roger" & >>> "localhost2" for your own environment. > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > Tue Apr 3 01:51:14 PDT 2007 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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