RE: root group in solaris

Typically you would add someone to the 'wheel' user group on a UNIX
system if you want them to have those privileges. You must make sure
that the tools you want users to have access to are also members of the
'wheel' group (chgrp), if it is not already setup that way by default.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_security
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html 

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On Behalf Of dubaisans dubai
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 7:50 AM
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com
Subject: root group in solaris

Hi,

I would like to give root user privileges to a set of OS administrators.
Everyone has individual user-ids on the system.
Currently they login with their personal ID and then SU to root. I donot
want to share root password with these many people.

I am thinking of adding all these users to the "root" group[GID 0].
Will it provide root-equivalent UID O access to these users. If not why
? Does the "root" group not have root user-id equivalent privileges?

Is it possible manually to make the GID 0 privileges equivalant of UID
O?

How else can I give these individual users root privileges - make all of
them UID 0 or something.? Is that a smart idea?

I am looking at something simpler than SUDO or RBAC