Groups . . . noob question

[David Koski]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 13:30, Patton Echols wrote:
> The recent discussion of group rights raises a real noob question for me.
>
> In many discussions, man pages, I see a reference to a group "wheel" but
> I see no such group on my system.  Is there actually a group of that
> name?  Or does using that name have a specific result?  Or is it a place
> marker for "whatever"

On some systems there is a group named wheel and is traditionally used
for system administration.

David