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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 04:48:00 +1100 (EST)
From:      Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>
To:        caijj@trans.hk.hi.cn
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't su root
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812090445260.535-100000@corp.au.triax.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812081537.XAA16890@trans.hk.hi.cn.>

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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 caijj@trans.hk.hi.cn wrote:

> 
>    I want to make a user su root, so I add it to the "wheel" group.
> But it dosn't work. The system prompts:"Your are not in the correct
> group to su root". 
>

What does your entry in /etc/group look like for the wheel group?  It
should look something like this..

wheel:*:0:root,user,user1

Jim

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