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To: "Dean Hollister" <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>,
        "Oliver Thuns" <oliver.thuns@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: su root: "su: you are not in the correct group to su root."
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:27:03 -0700
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>On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote:
>
>> I tried to su root, but I get the error "su: you are not in the correct
>> group to su root."
>>
>> How can I set the correct group for that user?
>>
>> This is my first FreeBSD installation, I user Debian before, but it
>> seems that FreeBSD has a better performance on an 486 with 8MB RAM.
>
>Edit /etc/group and add yourself to the wheel group.
>

Why is it than when I execute adduser or if I do it from sysinstall that the
wheel group is not updated in /etc/group?  I add a user to wheel in the
adduser utilities and I still have to mannually add them in the group file.

>Regards,
>
>d.
>
>+-------------------------------------------------------+
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>| Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au      |
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