Bug 5719 - pam_wheel uses wrong group
Summary: pam_wheel uses wrong group
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pam
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-10-08 10:18 UTC by Matts Kallioniemi
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-01-06 21:59:18 UTC
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Description Matts Kallioniemi 1999-10-08 10:18:54 UTC 
Pam_wheel defaults to use group root, not wheel, if the
group= parameter is not used. Contrary to doc.

The syntax in the doc is also wrong. It refers to the
old /etc/pam.conf configuration file, not /etc/pam.d/*.

/usr/doc/pam-0.68/txts/pam.txt:

"This module is used to enforce the so-called wheel group.
By default, it permits root access to the system if the
applicant user is a member of the wheel group (first, the
module checks for the existence of a 'wheel' group.
Otherwise the module defines the group with group-id 0 to
be the wheel group)."
Comment 1 Matts Kallioniemi 1999-10-08 12:13:59 UTC 
This was also reported and discarded as bug #921.

Since the code now checks for WHEEL_IS_WHEEL, that flag should be
defined to make the module work as intended.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-01-06 21:59:59 UTC 
Fix pulled from current Linux-PAM tree.  Will be fixed in next release.
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