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I'd personally do as Joe suggests
You might be right about that, Joe.
That also includes gvi and xvi.
Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group=============================================== (This section is by Richard Stallman.) Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all therest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided toseize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system andkeeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coupand give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn'tknow how to do that in Unix.) However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual`su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizeswith the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The "wheelgroup" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power ofthe rulers. I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you areused to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, youmight find this idea strange at first.
This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist system adminis- trators hold unwarranted power over other users.
Quote from: older slackware man pages This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist system adminis- trators hold unwarranted power over other users.