Re: Debian Equivalent of Group

["Cristian Escalante" <cristian@corpo5.com.br>]

> De: Paul Johnson <baloo>
> Data: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 06:43:18 -0700
> Assunto: Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?
> 
> 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.
> 
I thought it is recommended so in 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10

Can you give us further info about why it is not recommended or point 
a source about that ?

Any kind of will be welcome !

Regards,
Cristian