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Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?



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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote:
> On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are
> part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my
> Debian system and lack the experience to recognize its equivalent. Is there,
> by convention, a Debian equivalent to the ?wheel? group?

wheel, but it's use is not enabled by default nor is it recommended
for security reasons.  See pam documentation to enable wheel.

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