[Florian Laws: Re: how do I become a domain administrator]

[Mayers, P J]

wheel is typically the group of people that are allowed to use SU, which
roughly corresponds to the "administrators" of a unix box.

Cheers,
Phil 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Waters
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Sent: 24/09/99 14:28
Subject: Re: [Florian Laws: Re: how do I become a domain administrator]

> > Isn't it a bit strange that Samba depends on the mapping being to
> > the group wheel for it working?
> >
> > Florian
> >
> ---- End of forwarded text ----
> Group wheel is BSD speak,  there is no group wheel in Solaris or
> HP-UX,  DG-UX, NCR Unix etc...  Does this mean group root (GID=0)?

debian 2.1 doesn't have a wheel group by default either...

-stephen