[Gllug] What is the 'wheel' group for?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:09:33AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hello again
> 
> While searching docs for info relating to my last post, I came across 
> references to the wheel group. So the $SUBJECT says it: what's it for?

As others have said, on some *nix systems only members of the wheel
group can su to root.  You can add this restriction to most Linux
systems quite simply, using PAM, by changing the PAM settings for su to
include the pam_wheel module.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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