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Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine |
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thusly: |
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> > That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. |
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> > Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a |
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> > wheel. |
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> > Thanks. |
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> >> Best regards, |
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> >> Yann |
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> I think that is a Gentoo thing. It does add some security if you don't |
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> want a user, like maybe some little kid, getting root access for any |
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> reason. |
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No, it's pretty standard across Unix. |
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The BSD's for example have had it since forever - members of the wheel group |
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being allowed to sudo anything only came along much later. |
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Leaving it *out* is a Linux-distro thing, probably from the usual usage case |
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for Linux for many years - a server on the web that actually only had one user |
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even though it was capable of being fully multi-user. The concept of wheel for |
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su is pretty redundant in that case. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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