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Date:      Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:00:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        chad@anasazi.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: su login weird 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625115830.23056A-100000@planet-three.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806250806.BAA13813@implode.root.com>

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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, David Greenman wrote:

> >Ok, so what piece of magic am I missing this time?
> >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >Script started on Wed Jun 24 15:42:02 1998
> >% uname -a
> >FreeBSD chad-win.anasazi.com 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 23 22:52:38 MST 1998     chad@chad-win.anasazi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> >% id
> >uid=130(chad) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 200(sysadm)
> >% su root
> >su: you are not in the correct group to su root.
> >% exit
> 
>    I see that your gid is 0 (wheel), but is user chad in the wheel group (i.e.
> specified in the wheel: line in /etc/group)?

Thats what I thought when I saw this... but if you take your self out of
the wheel group (in /etc/group) but set your GID to zero in the password
file, you can still su to root.  Just tried it on my -STABLE system.


Scot.


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