Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:50:43 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Gilbert <gilbert@mail.gloviz.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU group Message-ID: <20020223085043.A56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <A9F9CB300A9D744A9EAC76309550E0FC03098F@beach.gloviz.co.za>; from gilbert@mail.gloviz.co.za on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:48:33PM %2B0200 References: <A9F9CB300A9D744A9EAC76309550E0FC03098F@beach.gloviz.co.za>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:48:33PM +0200, Gilbert wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
>
>
> I am creating a user ( which is for myself) and I want it to have SU
> access, when I created the user I did put it in the group “wheel” but I
> still do not have SU access.
The user needs to have an entry in wheel group in /etc/wheel. su(1)
doesn't examine /etc/passwd's group entry at all.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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