Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mtndew!friedl From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Steve Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Replacement su for SCO Unix Keywords: SCO, su Message-ID: <534@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US> Date: 30 Sep 90 19:44:25 GMT References: <1990Sep20.163355.7147@robobar.co.uk> <1990Sep21.143435.9810@dce.ie> Organization: VSI*FAX Tech Ctr, Tustin, CA Lines: 19 Eamonn McManus posts his su replacement for SCO, and it includes: > It replaces the complicated rules > for who can su to whom with just two: all except superuser must supply the > correct password to su to another user; and if a group `wheel' exists then > you must be a member of it to su to root. (For the wheel to be effective > you should restrict root logins; see login(M).) Could some kind soul please enlighten me as to the origin of the term "wheel" in this context? I've wondered about this for a long time. Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / I speak for me only / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy +1 714 544 6561 / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl "There are no technical problems that marketing can't overcome" - Gary W. Keefe