what is wheel???
 

Hey all. I have seen the term "wheel" several times now. Mopst recently in /etc/security/access.conf

Does any one know what this wheel entry is. Just looking for a general answer, not specific to the file listed above. Thanks! If this isn't enough info, sorry.

It is name of the group on your Linux system. You use it to put your users in it if you want to give them some extra permissions without much power...:)

Check /etc/group

thanks Axe, could you go a little more in depth perhaps with an example???

on redhat systems(and i haven't used redhat for a long while, so take this with a grain of salt) but users in the wheel group are allowed to su to root from their terminals

Something like that. I am not realy sure what else it is used for but I usualy put myself into this group when I create account. Maybe try su root with user not in this group and with different user which is member of this group and see the difference.

crap, I just edit the suers file, and wipe off wheel, Ho well live and leanr