Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine
thusly:
That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user.
Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a
wheel.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Yann
I think that is a Gentoo thing. It does add some security if you don't
want a user, like maybe some little kid, getting root access for any
reason.
No, it's pretty standard across Unix.
The BSD's for example have had it since forever - members of the wheel group
being allowed to sudo anything only came along much later.
Leaving it *out* is a Linux-distro thing, probably from the usual usage case
for Linux for many years - a server on the web that actually only had one user
even though it was capable of being fully multi-user. The concept of wheel for
su is pretty redundant in that case.
I learned something today. I only used Mandrake before Gentoo and never
saw anyone else mention it, except Gentoo users. Sort of thought it was
a Gentoo thing.
Thanks for the info.
Dale
:-) :-)
