Wheel group?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 05:23, Michael E. Webster wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 07:12, David wrote:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > what does the wheel group represent or what does it do??
> > 
> > when u run the ID command it says 10 (Wheel).
> > 
> > 
> > thanxs a MILLION
> > DBH
> > 
> <snip all that other stuff>
> 
> teh wheel groop is used wen u want 2 l3t users su 2 root.
> 
> http://web-hosting-report.com/web_hosting_manager/wheelGroup.htm
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To my knowledge, the wheel group is commonly used as a super-user group
on BSD and is pretty much not involved in Linux stuff except that you
may want to use NIS type of UID/GID designations. Linux uses other
groups such as adm/disk for these types of elevated privileges.

Craig