NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

Nikolas Britton freebsd at nbritton.org
Mon Nov 22 05:03:41 PST 2004


James Hong wrote:

>correct me if im wrong, but just because user is a part of WHELL group does
>that mean he/she is a root ? or equivlent of root ?
>
>I know lot of things like "su -" may require you to be wheel group but Im
>not sure why a user has to be non wheel group in order to log in.
>
>I think using SUDO is better than putting any user in to wheel too. but
>thats just me.
>
>James H
> 
>  
>
To my knowledge the wheel group has no "special" privileges and it's 
only purpose is to allow a normal user to become (su) root, thats it.


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