From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 7:55:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6429837B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 07:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f89EpXN08818; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:51:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B9B830D.3D43F5D9@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 10:56:13 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: Bsd Newbie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: really nice FreeBSD security feature.... References: <000601c138fa$e5e11f00$0e00000a@tomcat> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrew C. Hornback" wrote: > > I want to know the history behind if it anyone cares to share. You know, I'm curious about the origin of the name "wheel". I mean, why not just call it the "root" group (which is what Linux does, although I'm not sure if the functionality is the same) -Bill -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message