From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 18:09:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB1D16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9343D58 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031221020957.JPZQ12043.mta10.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com> for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:09:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:09:56 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: More trivia: origin of the wheel group X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:09:58 -0000 Since the last questin seemed to spark so much interest and conversation, I figured I'd try again ... Does anyone know why the wheel group is called "wheel"? I mean, why not "admins" or something like that. "wheel" certainly is a cryptic name for the administrators group. Anyone have any idea why it's called "wheel"? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com