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

Steven Susbauer steven at too1337.com
Wed Sep 8 19:07:48 EDT 2010


On 9/7/2010 9:25 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> As far as users (administrators) are concerned, the wheel group can be
> named anything and nobody will care. Those who still want to use the
> name "wheel" just need to change the sudoers file. And that's why this
> change was so unnecessary. An historic and innocuous reference is lost
> to one arbitrary decision. And with it the need to rewrite manuals,
> tutorials, and any other reference mater
>

It wasn't a change, it was an addition. wheel still works.


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