On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:32:17PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> I found /etc/sudoers on there when I was seeing how this strange new OS
> worked and noticed my user had been added to the wheel group and that
> wheel had full sudo access.  I began wondering why linux distros didn't
> do that :-)

But redhat _do_ do that.  Well actually something very much
like that.  consolehelper is a sudo like tool which is lets
you run reboot, powerdown etc... without a password.

Actually a lot of proggies use it:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/ |grep ' -> consolehelper'|wc -l
     54

Matt
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