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> How would that work? What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people? The wheel me
by lmm 1y ago
> How would that work? What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people?
The wheel member probably doesn't want to reveal their own login information. They want to share the root password with other users; on systems without a wheel group that works, but on systems with a wheel group non-wheel users can't su.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> The wheel member probably doesn't want to reveal their own login information. They want to share the root password with other users What's the difference? What would be something the other user could do in one of those scenarios that they couldn't do in the other one?
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- lmm 1y agoThe other user would get root access in one scenario and not the other (assuming this is a system that only allows root login from the actual console, or doesn't allow root login at all).
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> The other user would get root access in one scenario and not the other What?
- zmgsabst 1y agoRoot password is a shared secret that does not implicate the leaker; sharing your personal credentials, however does.