Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:24:50 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter <noc@hdk5.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <471E4A82.6010201@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <20071023001449.GB80547@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> <1193065278.73574.42.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <18204.64615.764929.781460@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20071023001449.GB80547@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Robert Huff 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. >> > > Wheel is 'big wheel' as in the hot shot who has the run of things > and bosses folks around - or thinks he can. > > ////jerry > > >> Robert Huff >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Aloha! I always thought of the root as the hub of a wheel and the qualified users of the hub would be joined to the hub of the wheel by spokes from out on the rim. Maybe this is where it came from. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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