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 ---- 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
