Re: Backdoor Root

[Thornton Prime <thornton cnation com>]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:

> Dave Wreski wrote:
> 
> > > The error for a user account is:
> > >
> > >       su: incorrect password
> >
> > It does that for good reason ;)
> >
> > Add the user name to the 'wheel' group in /etc/group.
> 
> What does the wheel group do?

The 'wheel' group is normally the group that has root, or near root,
privleges. Some PAM configurations restrict su access to members of the
wheel group.

thornton