Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I?m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had
> trouble using Glimpse to filter out ?wheel mouse?. I hope I?m not belaboring
> a well-covered point. If so, my appologies.
>
> 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?
see /etc/pam.d/su for details as well as Section 9.2.2 in the debian
reference.
asg
>
> Thanks sincerely,
>
> Marc
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