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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:57:13 -0500
From:      "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org>
To:        Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User in group wheel can't su to root
Message-ID:  <36A00E19.F2A64275@honk.org>
References:  <XFMail.990114210951.brownicm@prokyon.com>

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Thank you!

I had no idea that Kerberos would cause this kind of problem.  All is well now.

Thanks again!

M.

Chris Browning wrote:

> Did you install Kerberos? If you did or are not sure try "su -K". I just spent
> a couple days chasing the same thing around. HTH.
>
> On 14-Jan-99 Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, M. Poulin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my 2nd system, and I have set up
> >> everything as I did on
> >> my other system.  However, my user account that I created is unable to su to
> >> root.
> >>
> >> The first thing I checked was to make sure it was in the "wheel" group.  It
> >> is.
> >
> > If the user isn't in /etc/group's wheel group, su(1) will not allow
> > the user to be root. Doesn't matter what the user's login-gid is.
> >
> > Jonathan Chen
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                                         "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly
> >
>


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