Found 2 hits - Term: wheel bit, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
wheel bit n. a privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some
restricted operation on a timesharing system, such as read or write any
file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any
address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or
create jobs and user accounts. the term was invented on the tenex
operating system, and carried over to tops-20, xerox-ifs, and others.
the state of being in a privileged logon is sometimes called `wheel
mode'. this term entered the unix culture from twenex in the mid-1980s
and has been gaining popularity there esp. at university sites. see
also root.
see also:
root
- [2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
wheel bit
a privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some
restricted operation on a time-sharing system, such as read
or write any file on the system regardless of protections,
change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or
reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts.
the term was invented on the tenex operating system, and
carried over to tops-20, xerox-ifs, and others. the state of
being in a privileged logon is sometimes called "wheel mode".
this term entered the unix culture from twenex in the
mid-1980s and has been gaining popularity there especially at
university sites. see also root.
see also:
time-sharing root
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