On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:54, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:10:59PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > FWIW, In the 20+ years that I've been using *nices for a living, it > > wasn't until I used Linux that I even heard of the wheel group. > > The wheel group hasn't been strongly adopted in Linux. Any Linux use of > the wheel group is derived from BSD, which gained the wheel group > sometime in the mid-1980s from the TOPS-10 operating system. >
can you tell us a little more about the wheel group's use and abuse? I have never understood quite what it was for, where it got it's name etc. Apart from the fact that I need to be in the group, in some distro's, in order to su. And that I have seen it in BSD :-) > Cheers, > -mjg
