Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-10 Thread Rob Weir
heel mouse?. I hope I?m not belaboring > > a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. > > > > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are > > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my > > Debian system and

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Loren M Lang
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Marc Trudeau wrote: > Dear List, > > I¹m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had > trouble using Glimpse to filter out ³wheel mouse². I hope I¹m not belaboring > a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. > Please post as text as well as html for

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Adam Garside
t; > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my > Debian system and lack the experience to recognize its equivalent. Is there, > by convention, a Debian equivalent to the ?wheel?

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:39:33AM -0400, Marc Trudeau wrote: > On my Mac (a flavor of BSD Unix), all administrators, including root, are > part of group, ?wheel?. I couldn?t find that group in the ?group? file on my > Debian system and

Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"?

2003-07-07 Thread Marc Trudeau
Title: Debian Equivalent of Group "Wheel"? Dear List, I’m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had trouble using Glimpse to filter out “wheel mouse”. I hope I’m not belaboring a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. On my Mac (a flavor of BSD

Re: Off topic: Where does the group wheel come from?

2000-02-28 Thread Shawn
BSD >A buddy of mine asked me this question to which I haven't a clue: >"History of Unix question for you: where does group wheel come from?

Off topic: Where does the group wheel come from?

2000-02-28 Thread David Teague
Hi A buddy of mine asked me this question to which I haven't a clue: "History of Unix question for you: where does group wheel come from? "I unzipped the classes that come with Netscape, and like a lot of stuff, the files I unzipped were group wheel. I think there might have

Re: group 'wheel'

1997-10-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > I installed the secure-su package and there is a config file > in /etc which can be used to restrict the access to 'su' on > members of the group 'wheel'. > I also heard of this group in conjunction with wu-

group 'wheel'

1997-10-02 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello, this is kind of a newbie question. I installed the secure-su package and there is a config file in /etc which can be used to restrict the access to 'su' on members of the group 'wheel'. I also heard of this group in conjunction with wu-ftpd (but I haven't