On 24 August 2015 at 12:48, Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:04:40 +0000 > "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> > On 23 August 2015 at 03:39, Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkris...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > * Ottavio Caruso (ottavio2006-net...@yahoo.com) wrote: >> > >> But Slackware doesn't have the concept of the wheel group (as long as >> > >> I remember) and I myself don't like it very much. >> > > Slackware has this concept. >> > > http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=linux:admin >> >> > Yes, it might be in the wiki, but I remember correctly it's not >> > implemented. >> >> I am a former user of Slackware, through 13.0, and can say there was no >> wheel group. > > # cat /etc/slackware-version > Slackware 14.1 > > # grep wheel /etc/group > wheel:x:10:root
The bottom line is (or should be IMHO): if you use "su" then implement the "wheel" group. If you use "sudo", don't implement it. I prefer "sudo" over "su", but I got into problems last year when building programs with pkgsrc. I can't remember what problem it was, but it must have been with unrecognised variables.
