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wheel
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [from slang big wheel for a powerful person] A person who has an active
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wheel bit. We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives. (See
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wedged , sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to
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which the major system-internal users like root belong) is wheel. Some
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vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of
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group wheel can go root.
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