Groups . . . noob question

[Oumar Niane]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:53:37PM -0700, David Koski wrote :
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 13:30, Patton Echols wrote:
> > The recent discussion of group rights raises a real noob question for me.
> >
> > In many discussions, man pages, I see a reference to a group "wheel" but
> > I see no such group on my system.  Is there actually a group of that
> > name?  Or does using that name have a specific result?  Or is it a place
> > marker for "whatever"
> 
> On some systems there is a group named wheel and is traditionally used
> for system administration.

On BSD systems especially

Oumar

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