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That's extremely dangerous. Any software running as a wheel user can escalate privileges willy nilly.

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immibis2y ago· 2 in thread

they can also access your ssh private keys

In theory, those ssh private keys are password protected.

In practice, maybe not.

They were stored in the user’s yubikeys (or similar) in this example.

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