The wheel module Synopsis

Module Name: Author: Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> Maintainer: Author. Management groups provided: authentication; account Cryptographically sensitive: Security rating: Clean code base: System dependencies: Network aware: Overview of module

Only permit root access to members of the wheel (Authentication and Account components

Recognized arguments: Description: This module is used to enforce the so-called The module can be used as either an ' The action of the module may be modified from this default by one or more of the following flags in the /etc/pam.conf file. Examples/suggested usage: To restrict access to superuser status to the members of the # # root gains access by default (rootok), only wheel members can # become root (wheel) but Unix authenticate non-root applicants. # su auth sufficient pam_rootok.so su auth required pam_wheel.so su auth required pam_unix.so