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by bdd8f1df777b 719 days ago
That's extremely dangerous. Any software running as a wheel user can escalate privileges willy nilly.
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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.