Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Frank Bax <fbax@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:36 AM 9/1/05, daniel parkes wrote:
> i Was wondering what is the use of the wheel group in suse systems??, in
> freebsd it has guid 0 and only people that are members of the wheel group
> can su to root.
>
> Does it have any similar use in suse, it has guid 10 so i cant really see if
> it has any use out of the box??
>
> Can someone tell me how u can configure the system so only people in the
> wheel group ca su to root, whitout using sudo.


man su - last line directs reader to "info su" where last section says "GNU 
'su' does not support 'wheel' group.".

A google of "wheel su root suse" would have given you this link among top 10:
        http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t17161.html