From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:15:13 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] historical users and groups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <72C06F9F-BBDB-4473-9091-7131B7FFD073@tfeb.org> On 14 Jan 2009, at 00:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > staff group > How would this differ from wheel or operators? > Any recent systems actually have default use of this? My memory (from BSD 4.2 / 4/3 systems, I didn't use anything older other than transiently) is that staff was for, well, staff: real permanent staff, as opposed to guests or students. Wheel was people who could su, and I think that su knew about the wheel group. Or maybe it just knew about GID 0? Was wheel always GID 0? I have an unreliable memory that it was wheel because it was round, like 0. However This was all lore passed down from people who ran the systems before me (other than the su thing, I am pretty sure that I looked at source for (some version of) su and it did indeed know about some special group) and I don't know where they got it from. --tim