On 27/05/2019 02.20, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 05/26/2019 06:18 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
appears now that group "wheel" is just and addition point of confusion. why have it if there are means to accomplish the same results w/o it?
Why have to other means when the use of 'wheel' has been the established way to accomplish configuring both sudo and pam since the beginning of both. I agree there is confusion, but it is largely self-inflicted. Seems the simplest way is just to have wheel as a depends of sudo and pam to avoid this problem altogether without having to start patching config files to unnecessarily remove what could be handled with a simple dependency. KISS philosophy.
I'm interested in knowing how to use wheel. When I started using Linux some document or man page said that it was some abusive or "nazi" thing and Linux is not like that, but they never explained what, nor what it was for or how to use it. I assume that they referred to some university Unix account where a small group of users had the power to use the wheel and others didn't, and there were abuses. So I never found out. Do you have some link that explains it? Or do you feel up to writing something? :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)