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I have an old .spec file which I want to support for SLES15-SP4. The code tries to add a user in supplement group (-G) which is wheel. This line of code is not working for SLES15-SP4 and the useradd command results in error

group 'wheel' does not exist

My Questions are:

  1. Is there any documentation for SLES15-SP4 where it is mentioned that wheel group is removed?
  2. Can I add the user to root group instead? I found this in SLES docs:

By design, members of the group wheel can run all commands with sudo as root.

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    does wheel have any privileges other than being in sudoers? If that's all you want, add your user do /etc/sudoers like yourusername ALL=(ALL), done. Jan 27 at 11:52
  • @MarcusMüller uncommenting wheel group in /etc/sudoers not working for me. I logged out from machine and logged in again but still no effect. Any suggestions? Jan 27 at 13:05
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    well, that's not what I suggested above. So, my suggestion is to read my first comment again. Jan 27 at 13:07

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Run zypper in system-group-wheel to install the relevant package which creates this (optional) group.

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