Re: Groups

Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:15 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks guys.

On 17/02/2013, at 7:17 AM, LuKreme <kremels-/[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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