--------------D3B29D4065A511AD6822096E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Excuse my ignorance-- I meant to ask this one sooner. But what is a "wheel" group, and why is RMS opposed? Thanks, Vaughn Treude Armand wrote: > 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 > -- > WFMU Jersey City , NJ Free Form Radio > All the amateurism of college radio > without the basketball games. > http://www.wfmu.org/ssaudionet.shtml > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- ***************** Nakota Software, Inc. Custom Industrial Software Development --------------D3B29D4065A511AD6822096E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Excuse my ignorance-- I meant to ask this one sooner. But what is a "wheel" group, and why is RMS opposed?

Thanks,
Vaughn Treude

Armand wrote:

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
--
WFMU Jersey City , NJ Free Form Radio
All the amateurism of college radio
without the basketball games.
http://www.wfmu.org/ssaudionet.shtml
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