Re: Groups

LuKreme <kremels-/[email protected]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:17:51 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In our previous episode (Saturday, 16-Feb-2013), Tim Roberts said:
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> On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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>>> Should I be in Wheel if the account is an Admin account?   How can I =
add myself back into Wheel (there is a file in Unix I seem to remember). =
 Others have had similar problems with not being able to eject volumes =
in ML due to mds process.
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>> I think wheel is not current? On my laptop (the only machine I run as =
an admin user usually) my groups are listed as:
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>> staff com.apple.access_screensharing everyone _appstore localaccounts =
_appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin _lpoperator _developer
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> Try:
> %sudo groups
> wheel com.apple.access_screensharing daemon kmem sys tty operator =
procview procmod everyone staff certusers _appstore localaccounts admin =
_lpadmin _lpoperator _developer
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> It is root that is part of wheel.

Right, but the question was "should *I* be in Wheel if the account is =
and Admin account?" and the answer in 10.8 appears to be "No."

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He [Vimes]'d never felt really at home with swords, but a cleaver was a
different matter. A cleaver had weight. It had purpose. A sword might
have a certain nobility about it, unless it was the one belonging for
example to Nobby, which relied on rust to hold it together, but what a
cleaver had was a tremendous ability to cut things up.