plug@arcticmail.com wrote:
> 
> RMS is TOTALLY opposed to the "wheel" system (for
> political and philosophical reasons, not for technical
> reasons), so I don't know if any Linux distro offers it.
> Someone may have made a patch for Linux to enable
> wheel-like functionality.
> 
> Of course, you could just stick with *BSD!  :)
> 
> D
> 
> * On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Donald Martinez wrote:
> > I know that in  freebsd you have to allow a user to be able to su to
> > root. I just installed debian on a machine and want to be able to do the
> > same thing.
> > To allow a user to su you have to add them to the wheel group in freebsd
> > if my memory serves me correctly, but I don't see anything like that
> > here in debian.
> >
> > Can someone help, I only want one user to be able to su to root and
> > nobody else , and I want to use linux :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Donald

I think debian has sudo which you can configure so that only users
listed in the /etc/sudo file can become su and they can be given a
passwd other than root's passwd to do so.

Or at least you should be able to find a deb package for it and apt-get
it ?!  I've used it in Stampede.

HTH,

Armand
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