Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly:
> > That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. > > > > Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a > > wheel. > > > > Thanks. > > > >> Best regards, > >> Yann > > I think that is a Gentoo thing. It does add some security if you don't > want a user, like maybe some little kid, getting root access for any > reason. No, it's pretty standard across Unix. The BSD's for example have had it since forever - members of the wheel group being allowed to sudo anything only came along much later. Leaving it *out* is a Linux-distro thing, probably from the usual usage case for Linux for many years - a server on the web that actually only had one user even though it was capable of being fully multi-user. The concept of wheel for su is pretty redundant in that case. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
