From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 02:05:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04883 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 02:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from astra.gal.ukrpack.net ([195.230.139.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04706 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 02:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olegg@astra.gal.ukrpack.net) Received: from localhost (olegg@localhost) by astra.gal.ukrpack.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02747; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:54:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from olegg@astra.gal.ukrpack.net) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:54:48 +0300 (EEST) From: "Oleg G." Reply-To: "Oleg G." To: Questions , Sean Harding Subject: Re: I can't su!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998, Sean Harding wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 1998, Oleg G. wrote: > > > Check GID, it must be 0, like this: > > > olegg:*:1060:0:Oleg G., Info-Center:/home/olegg:/usr/local/bin/tcsh > > No, this is wrong. 'su' checks /etc/group, *not* passwd. As a matter of > fact, it is a bad idea to make wheel your default group like this. Put > yourself in a normal group in passwd and then add yourself to wheel in > group. Sure, it's a bad idea to make default group *wheel* like this, but I say _check GID_, thats mean _check_ not exactly modify! However, it's a way to temporary change the GID to *wheel*. Regardz, Oleg G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message