Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:56:26 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: John Murphy <freebsd001@freeode.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <471DEF7A.8080204@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20071023023830.6cf11d47@turion.freeode.co.uk> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> <1193065278.73574.42.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <18204.64615.764929.781460@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20071023023830.6cf11d47@turion.freeode.co.uk>
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John Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:39:19 -0400 > Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > >> James writes: >> >>> Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name >>> I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what >>> the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians >>> here - you'd be welcome to let us know!) >> Not sure, but I believe "wheel" predates UNIX. I have >> certainly seen the idea on OSes that do. Some anecdotal evidence on the web suggests that the idea was present in BBN's TENEX in 1969. Shrouded in the mists of time, indeed. Kevin Kinsey -- I do not take drugs -- I am drugs. -- Salvador Dali
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