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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:09:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>
To:        "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User in group wheel can't su to root
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990114210951.brownicm@prokyon.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.990115120536.26755D-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>

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Did you install Kerberos? If you did or are not sure try "su -K". I just spent
a couple days chasing the same thing around. HTH.

On 14-Jan-99 Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, M. Poulin wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my 2nd system, and I have set up
>> everything as I did on
>> my other system.  However, my user account that I created is unable to su to
>> root.
>> 
>> The first thing I checked was to make sure it was in the "wheel" group.  It
>> is.
> 
> If the user isn't in /etc/group's wheel group, su(1) will not allow
> the user to be root. Doesn't matter what the user's login-gid is.
> 
> Jonathan Chen
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Date: 14-Jan-99              
Time: 21:08:04

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