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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 14:01:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Whee Kim <philuint@erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980527135639.12452F-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <356B8D57.270FC309@erols.com>

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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Whee Kim wrote:

>     Hi, I have a question.
> 
>    I try to become root from the regular user by "su"Then I get
> following message...
> 
>   su: kerberos: not in root's ACL
>   Password:
> 
>   This started after I installed 2.2.6.  It hasn't done that with 2.2.5.
> What is kerberos?  and What is ACL? Is that an error? If it is how do I
> fix it?
> 

You must have installed Kerberos.  It's another password encryption
scheme.  ACL is (I'm guessing here) Account CLass.  (One of the normally
blank (0) fields in /etc/passwd.)  

Uninstall Kerberos (with pkg_delete) or use the -K option when su'ing to
not use Kerberos.

$ su -K
Password: ********
#


Dunno about the bin group business the other fella mentioned. 


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