Wheel (computing) - Wikipedia

In Unix operating systems, the term wheel refers to a user account with a wheel bit, a system setting that provides additional special system privileges that empower a user to execute restricted commands that ordinary user accounts cannot access.[1][2] The term wheel was first applied to computer user privilege levels after the introduction of the TENEX operating system, later distributed under th

[progrhyme]

"The term was derived from the slang phrase big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence." 知らなかった。

[IzumiSy]

*nix系OSで管理者権限をもてるグループの名称がwheelな理由

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The term is derived from the slang term big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence.[1] It was first used in this context with regard to the TENEX operating system, later distributed under the name TOPS-20 in the 1960s and early 1970s.