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What is the Wheel group on Linux?

About

The users of the wheel group are able to su to root. This usually consists of a group named “wheel” and a set of users that are permitted to use the utility ‘su’ in order to change to root.

The term is derived from the slang phrase big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence

Management

Installation

PAM

In the pluggable authentication module, there is a wheel module. See the wheel PAM module

Documentation / Reference