Subject: Re: wheel? (was: wheel vs root (newby question?))
To: Josh Huber <leonard@dstc.edu.au, josh@ronin.com>
From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@injersey.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/08/1996 22:58:39
At 8:12 AM 1/9/96, David Leonard wrote:
>Hmm this makes me wonder: what is the history of the name given to gid 0?
>Why `wheel' and not `privileged', `su' or something like that.
>
>d
Well, both sound a lot dumber than wheel. And my (very bad) guess is: the
root of mankind (invention) started with the wheel.
Its late. I better get some sleep.
Shawn.
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