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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by _0ffh on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:18PM (#17207630)
Perhaps because you get write access to the root directory (and from there on down the whole tree), while normal users are kept within their respective home directories?
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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by Crontab on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:56PM (#17208091)
That means sense as user directories used to be kept in /usr.
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