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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 20:29:31 -0700
From:      Seth Kingsley <sethk@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20010509202931.G56979@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010430092707.B12606@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0700
References:  <200104280717.f3S7HLE11599@freefall.freebsd.org> <20174.988645110@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <20010430092707.B12606@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Is there any compelling reason for su to continue to use this pretty
> > lame diagnostic?  A lot of the instances of this FAQ would be dealt with
> > by using the message:
> > 
> > 	"only members of group wheel may su to root"

How about:

Index: su.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /ncvs/src/usr.bin/su/su.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -r1.36 su.c
--- su.c	2001/03/27 19:40:51	1.36
+++ su.c	2001/05/10 03:18:30
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 						if (gid == 0)
 							break;
 						else
-							errx(1, "you are not in the correct group to su %s.", user);
+							errx(1, "you are not in the correct group (%s) to su %s.", gr->gr_name, user);
 					}
 					if (strcmp(username, *g) == 0) {
 #ifdef WHEELSU

-- 
|| Seth Kingsley || BSDi/Open Source Division || sethk@osd.bsdi.com ||

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