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It's worth noting that the reason why your OS/distro doesn't have or doesn't respect wheel is largely down to RMS opposing it[0], instead favoring people tradin
by kmeisthax 2y ago
It's worth noting that the reason why your OS/distro doesn't have or doesn't respect wheel is largely down to RMS opposing it[0], instead favoring people trading the root password around to unauthorized users.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070603191229/http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html#index-group-wheel_002c-not-supported-2200 https://web.archive.org/web/20070603191229/http://www.gnu.or...
- sham1 2y agoIt's also worth noting that the Coreutils `su` is no longer in use by anyone, and that the `su` from the shadow-package absolutely checks for wheel. It's even configurable if you haven't enabled PAM by configuring `SU_WHEEL_ONLY` in your login.defs. And with PAM you configure that via PAM. Hell, not even GNU distros like GNU Guix, Parabola, nor Trisquel follow RMS' opinions on this anymore.
- ilius2 2y agoNot all distros use `alias su='sudo -i'`. Ubuntu does. Debian does not. Not sure about others.