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Re: Where did the group 'wheel' come from?

Subject: Re: Where did the group 'wheel' come from?
From: Chris Woods <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:46:45 -0400


On Jun 13, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote:

I'm curious to the purpose of 'wheel' as a group.
I've been changing the group to 'admin'.

The 'wheel' group is a legacy of the BSD foundation of OS X. Traditionally any user account not in the 'wheel' group is not able to su to the root account.

Chris Woods
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  >Re: Where did the group 'wheel' come from? (From: "Frederick C. Lee" <email@hidden>)




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