Post #3990936
2026-07-21 17:01 UTC
Yes… in my opinion. The real answer is that it depends on the intended use of the system and the users’ needs. It’s as legitimate to treat wheel as a catchall permissions group as it is to go around specifying permissions for specific users in your sudoers and udev rules
From my understanding, the kernel tends to reuse the same names when attaching devices, but it’s not required to do so by the specs (i.e. there may be cases where the /dev file name changes depending on what you have plugged in). Hence why the common advice is to not specify /dev files in your fstab, and why people use udev rules instead of chmod and chown-ing the /dev files
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@akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-21 18:44
Thanks! I’m going to interpret this as such: it doesn’t really matter, since - on my system - creating new groups require root privileges, requiring a superuser or a user part of wheel anyway. This way, I can create a group with name that reflects its purpose, which in turn gives readability to the udev rule file. This makes sense. Thanks for the fstab example/reminder!