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From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
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On Wednesday January 03, 2001 22:49, Doug Young wrote:
> > A user can only run su if the particular user is in group "wheel"
>
> As I understand it, having anyone in the wheel group is not
> considered good practice anymore, 

Do you know why not?  Details, I need details.  :)

> at least add the users to another group & then add the group to 
> wheel, 

Is that why when I added a user with adduser to wheel that I was 
actually added to gid 0 and 0 is in wheel?  What advantage does that 
have?

						Tim

>or preferably use something like
> sudo so you have more control over what users can do
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>
>   It saids i cant su from this account, i cant remember what group it
> had to be, what group is it?


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