WHEEL


Meaning of WHEEL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

[from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit . "We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives." (See wedged , sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to which the major system-internal users like root belong) is `wheel'. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of group `wheel' can go root .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.