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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:12:49 -0400
From:      Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wheel group not named wheel?  HELP!
Message-ID:  <B8E2FB21.F377%bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204162154580.9426-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Can I just change it back to wheel in /etc/group?

Brendan

> From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Wheel group not named wheel?  HELP!
> 
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
> 
>> Just checking out a server that I've been having problems with and I've
>> noticed that instead of the wheel group, I have a groupwheel group.  Has
>> anyone seen this before?  Should I be concerned?  How should I go about
>> changing the name of the group back to Wheel?
>> 
>> Search on google didn't turn up much of anything.
>> 
> Where, in /etc/group? It sounds like a bad edit of /etc/group, the
> first line of which should be
> 
> wheel:*:0:root,spike,vicki
> 
> or whoever your users are whom you want in root instead of spike and vicki
> (if any)
> 
> Annelise
> 
> 
> -- 
> Annelise Anderson
> Author of:          FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC
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> 
> 
> 
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