What can be done to make sure sudo user have only read access to important directories in RHEL?

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Issue

  • What can be done to make sure sudo user have only read access to important directories like /etc/sysconfig/*?

  • How to configure sudo user in /etc/sudoers?

  • What does "wheel" group stands for?

%wheel ALL=(ALL)       ALL

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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