Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!news.tufts.edu!gowen
From: gowen@apex.cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen)
Subject: Re: wheel group
In-Reply-To: alex@neteng.melpar.esys.com's message of Wed, 15 Sep 1993 11:52:00 GMT
Message-ID: <GOWEN.93Sep15214303@apex.cs.tufts.edu>
Sender: news@news.tufts.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Tufts University Department of Computer Science
References: <CDE8yp.HxD@melpar>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 02:43:03 GMT
Lines: 14
alex@neteng.melpar.esys.com queries:
} I'm new to the BSD way of doing things. What is the function and/or
} history of the wheel group?
The purpose of the wheel group is to limit access to the root
account. If the wheel group has members, then only those users are
allowed to "su" into root. It may have other functions as well, which
I am not aware of.
Greg Owen { gowen@forte.cs.tufts.edu, gowen@xis.xerox.com }
1.01 GCS/GO d++ p+ c++ l++ u++ e+ -m+ s++/- n- h !(f)? g+ -w+ t+ r-- y?
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins/Why then Ile fit you.
Hieronymo's mad againe./Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata."