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cagenut on May 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group

Ironically the "wheel" construct is alive and well via sudo. The default /etc/sudoers for rhel/centos/fedora systems has a line that allows anyone in the wheel group the ability to run anything they want through sudo, its just commented out. Delete one character and voila, you can give and retract root privs via adding and removing users from the wheel group.

__david__ on May 5, 2011 | [–]

I noticed recently that my Debian now comes with a "sudo" group that is effectively the same thing.

mprovost on May 6, 2011 | [–]

That's because sudo is a BSD tool so it's always worked with the wheel group.

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