On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:32 -0500, Mike Williams wrote:
Not sure if there are other reasons to add a user to the wheel group.
Don't think there is any other use for the wheel group.
Maybe not for the OP, but there is also a pam_wheel module that will
succeed only if the invoking user is in the wheel group. It is sometimes
used in /etc/pam.d/su to allow only wheel group users to use su.
--Greg