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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:38:53 -0300
From:      Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet root login
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980226193532.0092e600@pop.mpc.com.br>

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I'm soprry for the stupid question, but beginners are like that...

Per what Jon said, I must add all of my root-level users to the group wheel
using some sort of application, right ? (which application ?)


At 09:17 AM 2/27/98 +1300, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Capriotti wrote:
>
>> $ id
>> uid=1003(bala1) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
>> $ su
>> su: you are not in the correct group to su root.  
>
>[Happened to me last month as well]
>
>su(1) doesn't look at your gid, it looks at /etc/group. If you
>don't have the entry for bala1 within wheel in /etc/group, it won't
>allow you to su to root.
>--
>Jonathan Chen            |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
><jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>    |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>
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