[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

[Ty John]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:10:18 +0100
Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 08:13, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 07/09/10 16:22, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >>
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo
> >> group designation along with the traditional %wheel:
> >>
> >> ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
> >> # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
> >>
> >>
> >> Any reason that we would want a sudo group instead of using wheel?
> >>
> >
> > Upstream made the change so it is just being passed along.  No idea
> > why but "sudo" does seem a better name for a group of sudoers than
> > "wheel"...
> 
> Even though wheel is historic[1] I agree that sudo is a better name
> for the group.
> 
> /M
> 
> [1]:
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wheel_%28Unix_term%29
> 

Huh. I always wondered what 'wheel' meant.