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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:55:13 -0800
From:      Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net>
To:        "Joseph Norris" <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: question about adduser and root
Message-ID:  <v04210101b4ca357ac0d5@[192.168.100.2]>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHIEJOCBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>
References:  <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHIEJOCBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>

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At 1:30 PM -0800 2/11/00, Joseph Norris wrote:
>Hello group,
>
>I have added a new user and I wanted that user to be able to use su. When I
>log on as the user and try to do su, I get an error that the user is not
>part of the group. Did do something wrong the adduser? How can I fix this?


I don't know if this is the "official" way to do it, but what I did 
is add my userid to the wheel group.

In /etc/wheel I have:

wheel:*:0:root,stevel

where "stevel" is the user to be allowed to su.

Steve L



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