passwordless sudo

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Thu Dec 1 00:04:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:32 -0500, Mike Williams wrote:

> 
> Not sure if there are other reasons to add a user to the wheel group.
> Don't think there is any other use for the wheel group.

Maybe not for the OP, but there is also a pam_wheel module that will
succeed only if the invoking user is in the wheel group. It is sometimes
used in /etc/pam.d/su to allow only wheel group users to use su.

--Greg




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