<story><title>Why linux doesn&apos;t have a &quot;wheel&quot; group</title><url>http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-wheel-group/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudonim</author><text>Ironically, &quot;sudo su&quot; works really well if you do need to get to root. But yeah, &quot;sudo&quot; is a much safer practice.</text></item><item><author>kwantam</author><text>A simpler explanation is that many Linux distributions discourage the use of su altogether in favor of sudo, which gives you finer grained control over this sort of thing than wheel ever did.&lt;p&gt;In any case, if you really care, just enable pam_wheel.so in your pam configuration for su (usually /etc/pam.d/su) and be sure to add yourself to the appropriate group.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkassis</author><text>If you have a saddist sysadmin he wouldn&apos;t allow you to use su or any other dangerous command that are not approved. Sudo is a rather impressive tool. If you need to give someone access to root for one or two commands, it can do that. It&apos;s logging ability is lost when you do sudo su. You should avoid it as much as possible on servers with many admins. That log trail can be a real butt saver.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why linux doesn&apos;t have a &quot;wheel&quot; group</title><url>http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-wheel-group/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudonim</author><text>Ironically, &quot;sudo su&quot; works really well if you do need to get to root. But yeah, &quot;sudo&quot; is a much safer practice.</text></item><item><author>kwantam</author><text>A simpler explanation is that many Linux distributions discourage the use of su altogether in favor of sudo, which gives you finer grained control over this sort of thing than wheel ever did.&lt;p&gt;In any case, if you really care, just enable pam_wheel.so in your pam configuration for su (usually /etc/pam.d/su) and be sure to add yourself to the appropriate group.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akent</author><text>&quot;sudo -i&quot;, please!</text></comment>