"Felix C. Stegerman" <flx@obfusk.net> writes: >> Historically in UNIX the group wheel has GID 0, in Debian that's the >> root group. > > Do you know where the name `wheel' comes from? Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_war The reason GNU doesn't support wheel group: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/coreutils_149.html#SEC150 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes