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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:00:13 +1000 (EST)
From: Iain Templeton <iaint@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au>
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Subject: RE: Root logins...
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote:

> In order to do "su" put your group into /etc/group behind
>         wheel:*:0:root,yourgroup
> 
I always thought that is was the username that you put there, since you
are making the user a member of the group wheel, and allowing the user
access. (This is what su(1) man page seems to say anyway)

I suppose if you have the user and group names the same it might get a bit
confusing.

Iain.