Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:54:03 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to 'su' Message-ID: <9602091454.AA03663@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602090816.QAA24594@marikit.iphil.net> References: <199602090816.QAA24594@marikit.iphil.net>
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<<On Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:16:43 +0800 (GMT+0800), "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net> said: > Hello! > How do you su to root? Even if the user's GID is changed to 0 > with vipw, su still says: > su: you are not in the correct group to su root. The user's primary GID should never be 0. Rather, the user should be added to the membership of group 0 in /etc/group. The `su' command only looks at the group membership list, not the user's group list. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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