Re: sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

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On 9/7/2010 9:25 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
As far as users (administrators) are concerned, the wheel group can be
named anything and nobody will care. Those who still want to use the
name "wheel" just need to change the sudoers file. And that's why this
change was so unnecessary. An historic and innocuous reference is lost
to one arbitrary decision. And with it the need to rewrite manuals,
tutorials, and any other reference mater


It wasn't a change, it was an addition. wheel still works.


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