[Eug-lug] Sudoers question

[Ben Barrett]

IIRC, wheel was intended to match the GID on su, so that non-group
members cannot even become root, a hardening tactic that goes along
with disallowing any direct root logins.

Why not make wheel?  You'll feel so evolved; groupadd wheel and grunt
with glee ;)
(then again, what good is wheel if you don't use it?)

Good place to have some fun with system standard, make your wheel a
block, heh heh.
I remember at first I had trouble shaking the naive idea that it had
something to do with ZAxizMapping... the mouse scroll wheel --
unrelated.

ben


On 4/3/07, Martin Kelly <aomighty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why would I? I thought wheel was just an example group for within the
> sudoers file. wheel doesn't even exist on my system.
>
> roger wrote:
> > Forgive me if I'm wrong on this one, but maybe you also need to be
> > within the group "wheel" (/etc/groups)?
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:31 -0700, Martin Kelly wrote:
> >> Including that line (and none else regarding my user) makes it so I'm
> >> not able to run any commands as sudo.
> >>
> >> If I include both that line and the "martin ALL = (ALL) ALL" line, I am
> >> able to run all commands without a password.
> >>
> >> roger wrote:
> >>> Include the following within your /etc/sudoers and replace "roger" &
> >>> "localhost2" for your own environment.
> > --
> > Roger
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
> > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61
> >
> > Tue Apr 3 01:51:14 PDT 2007
> >
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