Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:15:15 -0800 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group Message-ID: <o9vfo9930c.fo9@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com> (Bill Moran's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:09:56 -0500") References: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> writes: > 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"? Seems obvious to me. "Big wheel" was slang for "one who calls the shots" or "VIP" as long as I can remember. And "wheel" was common slang for "big wheel". Some sys admin must have seen sys admins as qualifying. Why "big wheel" had that meaning, I can only guess, but I suspect it came from horsey days when people's importance was pretty-well correlated with the size of their vehicle's wheels.
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