* Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> [2006-06-17 11:38]: > > > Historically in UNIX the group wheel has GID 0, in Debian that's > > > the root group. > > > > Do you know where the name `wheel' comes from? > > No I don't. I couldn't find anything on Google either (10 minute > search only). One interesting peculiarity I wasn't aware of is that > on BSDs, which have the wheel group, `su root` is only allowed for > members of the wheel group. That's how I've set it up as well. I've added a system group wheel and made sure PAM only allows su (and console logins) for members of group wheel. Also, SSH only allows members of group wheel to log in remotely. I think I got the idea from the "Securing Debian Manual". - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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