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wheelwheel is the group used by OSX for the 'system' /Applications. It was present since at least 1989-03-13 in the source of BSD Unix.

Whether the connotation is 'big wheel' or 'wheel of fortune' is unclear from my sources, but membership of wheel is special.

In OS X PAM is used to set the policy that su(1)su(1) will use. In particular, by default only users in the admin'' or adminwheel'' or wheel groups can switch to UID 0 (root''). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the rootpam_group''). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the pam_group section of /etc/pam.d/su/etc/pam.d/su. See pam_group(8)pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this setting.

wheel is the group used by OSX for the 'system' /Applications. It was present since at least 1989-03-13 in the source of BSD Unix

Whether the connotation is 'big wheel' or 'wheel of fortune' is unclear from my sources, but membership of wheel is special.

In OS X PAM is used to set the policy that su(1) will use. In particular, by default only users in the admin'' or wheel'' groups can switch to UID 0 (root''). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the pam_group'' section of /etc/pam.d/su. See pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this setting.

wheel is the group used by OSX for the 'system' /Applications. It was present since at least 1989-03-13 in the source of BSD Unix.

Whether the connotation is 'big wheel' or 'wheel of fortune' is unclear from my sources, but membership of wheel is special.

In OS X PAM is used to set the policy that su(1) will use. In particular, by default only users in the admin or wheel groups can switch to UID 0 (root). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the pam_group section of /etc/pam.d/su. See pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this setting.

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wheel is the group used by OSX for the 'system' /Applications. It was present since at least 1989-03-13 in the source of BSD Unix

Whether the connotation is 'big wheel' or 'wheel of fortune' is unclear from my sources, but membership of wheel is special.

In OS X PAM is used to set the policy that su(1) will use. In particular, by default only users in the admin'' or wheel'' groups can switch to UID 0 (root''). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the pam_group'' section of /etc/pam.d/su. See pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this setting.