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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wheel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="Whats-a-spline.html" title="What's a spline?"/><link rel="next" href="wheel-bit.html" title="wheel bit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wheel</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whats-a-spline.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wheel"/><dt xmlns="" id="wheel"><b>wheel</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from slang ‘big wheel’ for a powerful person] A person
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who has an active <a href="wheel-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">wheel bit</i></a>. “<span class="quote">We need to find
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a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives.</span>” (See
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<a href="wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>, sense 1.) The traditional name of security
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group zero in <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> (to which the major
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system-internal users like <a href="../R/root.html"><i class="glossterm">root</i></a> belong) is
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‘wheel’. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying
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Unix so that only members of group ‘wheel’ can
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<a href="../G/go-root.html"><i class="glossterm">go root</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whats-a-spline.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wheel-bit.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">What's a spline? </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wheel bit</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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