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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
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Excuse my ignorance-- I meant to ask this one sooner. But what
is a "wheel" group, and why is RMS opposed?
<p>Thanks,
<br>Vaughn Treude
<p>Armand wrote:
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plug@arcticmail.com wrote:
<br>>
<br>> RMS is TOTALLY opposed to the "wheel" system (for
<br>> political and philosophical reasons, not for technical
<br>> reasons), so I don't know if any Linux distro offers it.
<br>> Someone may have made a patch for Linux to enable
<br>> wheel-like functionality.
<br>>
<br>> Of course, you could just stick with *BSD! :)
<br>>
<br>> D
<br>>
<br>> * On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Donald Martinez wrote:
<br>> > I know that in freebsd you have to allow a user to be able
to su to
<br>> > root. I just installed debian on a machine and want to be able
to do the
<br>> > same thing.
<br>> > To allow a user to su you have to add them to the wheel group in
freebsd
<br>> > if my memory serves me correctly, but I don't see anything like
that
<br>> > here in debian.
<br>> >
<br>> > Can someone help, I only want one user to be able to su to root
and
<br>> > nobody else , and I want to use linux :)
<br>> >
<br>> > Thanks in advance,
<br>> >
<br>> > Donald
<p>I think debian has sudo which you can configure so that only users
<br>listed in the /etc/sudo file can become su and they can be given a
<br>passwd other than root's passwd to do so.
<p>Or at least you should be able to find a deb package for it and apt-get
<br>it ?! I've used it in Stampede.
<p>HTH,
<p>Armand
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