Re: F36 Change: Make Rescue Mode Work With Locked Root (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 01:50:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> So here's what I'd suggest: let's define a group (my suggestion: let's
> repurpose "wheel" for that) that has the effect that the passwords of
> any user in it are also accepted as password for the root user,

My working real-world security knowledge is dangerously out of date so I will
defer to others on the proposal itself, but: yes, we already treat wheel
membership as "able to escalate to root", and it seems sane to reuse.

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