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Equal rights for everyone, anyone can use any account. Later on, and still today as default in GNU software, he also objected to the 'wheel' group that would r

Equal rights for everyone, anyone can use any account. Later on, and still today as default in GNU software, he also objected to the 'wheel' group that would restrict the ability to call 'su' to just the members of 'wheel'. He wanted everyone who somehow obtained the root password to be able to become root.

jmclnx 3y ago
This is probably the largest reason wheel is not used on Linux. The BSDs still require wheel to become root
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  In OpenBSD at least, if there are users in the wheel group then this is enforced. If there are no users in the wheel group then anyone who knows the password can become root.
qingcharles 3y ago
"Why do you need a password? What are you hiding?"
- deleted 3y ago
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