[Gllug] Wheel Group

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:17:39AM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Mick Farmer wrote:
> 
> > Dear GLLUGers,
> >
> > On some flavours of *NIX, you need to me a member of the
> > wheel group in order to "su" to the root account.
> 
> Ahem...
> 
> http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/linux/man-pages/man1/su.1.html#toc4

Well, that was the early 80's, when (by & large) computer users were responsible people
and certainly would not do anything to damage any one else's files/...
But having said that, RMS's attitude was naive, even for those days, and is certainly
untenable now.

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