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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 11:54:48 +0300 (EEST)
From:      "Oleg G." <olegg@astra.gal.ukrpack.net>
To:        Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Subject:   Re: I can't su!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528110923.2574A-100000@astra.gal.ukrpack.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980527084257.28167E-100000@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>

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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.
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