Re: wheel group

2011-05-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > But I hope the login maintainers 'wontfix' any such bug report. This is a I suspect they would, yesbased on the advice of people they trust for such things..:-) (imho, such case is indeed something where the Technical Comittee has added value i

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:20:17PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 06 May 2011, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > Restricting certain privileges (like su root) to certain users only > > looks more secure than letting everyone do it... Is there any particular > > reason Debian GNU/L

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 May 2011, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > Because we do not enable pam_wheel by default, so it is not needed by > > default. > > Heh, that's what this question is about. :-) Then ask it directly :-p > Restricting certain privileges (like su root) to certain users only > looks more secu

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 06 May 2011 12:18:20 +0200, Stanis?aw Findeisen wrote: >On 2011-05-06 01:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Fri, 06 May 2011, Stanis=C5=82aw Findeisen wrote: >>> Why is there no wheel group by default in Debian GNU/Linux? >>=20 >> Because we do not enable pam_wheel by default, so

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Sujit Karatparambil
> Heh, that's what this question is about. :-) http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4460/why-is-debian-not-creating-the-wheel-group-by-default > Restricting certain privileges (like su root) to certain users only > looks more secure than letting everyone do it... Is there any particular > reas

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Heh, that's what this question is about. :-) Restricting certain privileges (like su root) to certain users only looks more secure than letting everyone do it... Is there any particular reason Debian GNU/Linux is so permissive by default? --=20 Eisenbits - proven software solutions: http://www.ei

Re: wheel group

2011-05-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 May 2011, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > Why is there no wheel group by default in Debian GNU/Linux? Because we do not enable pam_wheel by default, so it is not needed by default. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness gr