Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

[Marc Trudeau]

Dear List,

I¹m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had
trouble using Glimpse to filter out ³wheel mouse². I hope I¹m not belaboring
a well-covered point. If so, my appologies.

On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are
part of group, ³wheel². I couldn¹t find that group in the ³group² file on my
Debian system and lack the experience to recognize its equivalent. Is there,
by convention, a Debian equivalent to the ³wheel² group?

Thanks sincerely,

Marc
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[Paul Johnson]

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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote:

> On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are
> part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my
> Debian system and lack the experience to recognize its equivalent. Is there,
> by convention, a Debian equivalent to the ?wheel? group?

wheel, but it's use is not enabled by default nor is it recommended
for security reasons. See pam documentation to enable wheel.

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[Cristian Escalante]

> De: Paul Johnson <baloo>

> Data: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 06:43:18 -0700
> Assunto: Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?
>
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote:

> > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are
> > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my
> > Debian system and lack the experience to recognize its equivalent. Is there,
> > by convention, a Debian equivalent to the ?wheel? group?

>
> wheel, but it's use is not enabled by default nor is it recommended
> for security reasons. See pam documentation to enable wheel.
>

I thought it is recommended so in
[url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10[/url]

Can you give us further info about why it is not recommended or point
a source about that ?

Any kind of will be welcome !

Regards,
Cristian


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[Paul Johnson]

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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:11:17PM -0300, Cristian Escalante wrote:

> Can you give us further info about why it is not recommended or point
> a source about that ?

Oh. I was thinking of the traditional usage of wheel, that is, select
users get to go root without knowing the password.

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[Loren M Lang]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Marc Trudeau wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I¹m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had
> trouble using Glimpse to filter out ³wheel mouse². I hope I¹m not belaboring
> a well-covered point. If so, my appologies.
>

Please post as text as well as html for us readers who prefer
using text-based email readers.

> Thanks sincerely,
>
> Marc
>

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