Hi Team,
I have doubt what is the difference between getting elevated access to a user , using through adding the normal user to wheel group
and making an sudo file entry like user ALL=(ALL) PASSWD:ALL
Regards
Kanna
different types of getting elevated previleages
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Re: different types of getting elevated previleages
Not sure what you are asking exactly. They both have the same result, one by using the default rule in /etc/sudoers to allow users in group wheel to use sudo, and the other by adding a rule to explicitly allow a specific user. Both are controlled by the rules in /etc/sudoers or /etc/sudoers.d/*.
Re: different types of getting elevated previleages
On CentOS 6, just adding the user to group wheel does nothing special to them. They'll have no more access afterwards than they did before. Only if you edit /etc/sudoers with visudo and uncomment the line in there that gives group wheel access to group wheel will it make any difference.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke