On February 4, 2004 08:05 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 21:27 2/4/2004, you wrote: > >And not to get into a one up or anything, but if you created a su-users > > group for those users, you would avoid spilling any other access the > > wheel group may have. > > Is there any other access given to wheel? I was under the impression that > the group was pretty much "those who can become root" but had fallen into > disuse... > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.simpaticus.com You're right, on a new install, wheel is not used (only root is a member), so it would work fine. I was just being paranoid. Does the group wheel actually hold any significance access wise or is it just traditionally used for members with root level tasks, and manually given those rights through filesystem permissions? -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
