On 15 June 2015, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:53:56AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> > My memories of Debiandora are fading slightly, but, ...
> > ... I think the numeric id for wheel group in Linux is not 0.
>
> At least on Ubuntu 12.04 there is no wheel group and the numeric id
> for the root group is 0.
Yeah, renaming wheel to root makes for increased security, too. :)
It prompted people to write recommendations, HOWTOs, and security cheat
sheets about creating groups named "staff", "admins", and the like, and
give _those_ special privileges. You can't make these things up, I'm
telling ya.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
