From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 06:57:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA20571 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 06:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA20560 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 06:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23847; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:57:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:57:17 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: jadeite cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in 1014??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, jadeite wrote: > A user will be in any group that you specify in /etc/passwd. > You need to be in group wheel to su. I was listed as being in group 0 in /etc/passwd and in master.passwd of course. But su was only reading /etc/group evidently and group was not automatically updated. I didn't have to touch it in 2.1.5. Any other ideas? > > On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > > > > When I created users the /etc/group file was not updated. > > I noticed when I could not su on my new machine. > > Is this a known bug? (I don't remember seeing a PR) > > thanks > > > > ====================================================================== > > Jeremy Sigmon B.S. ChE | > > Web Developer of the Robert C. Byrd Health | Use > > Sciences Center of West Virginia University | FreeBSD > > WWW.HSC.WVU.EDU | Now > > Graduate Student in Computer Science | > > Office : 293-1060 | > > > > >