Solved Group Wheel

[Elisangela Araujo]

What is the purpose of uncomment the line bellow through the visudo ?

# %wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL

 

[protocelt]

By uncommenting that line, you are allowing any user that is in the wheel group to run any command as another user and/or with root privileges when using sudo(8).

 

[SirDice]

Yep, the % indicates it's a group, not a user. It works for other groups too, %admin for example is quite common.

 

[Elisangela Araujo]

Then the group wheel is the name of the group sudo(8)?

 

[cpm@]

Then the group wheel is the name of the group sudo(8)?

Please, read this question posted on Stack Exchange to understand it better:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name