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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:41:13 -0700 (MST)
From:      Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
To:        chet@redsky.com (Chet Puskarz-Carello)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SU
Message-ID:  <199603072341.QAA30255@terra.aros.net>
In-Reply-To: <v02110100ad646b90075e@[140.174.250.49]> from "Chet Puskarz-Carello" at Mar 7, 96 10:35:52 am

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They may be set to default to group wheel, but they're not actually in 
the group.  Edit the group file and add them.

    -Dave Andersen

Lo and behold, Chet Puskarz-Carello once said:
> 
> Hi guys,
> I'm been having trouble setting up superuser access to root. When I 'su
> root' and sign on with the proper password, I get a reponse that user is
> not part of group.
> 
> I've designated the user to be group 0 (wheel) when I created the user.
> That I believe is the group that root belongs to.
> 
> Any ideas,
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> chet carello
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chet Puskarz
> Red Sky Films
> 50 Green St., S.F., CA. 94111
> ph: 415.421.7332, fax: 415.421.0927
> chet@redsky.com
> http://www.redsky.com
> 
> 


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