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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: jahan@jjsoft.com
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Subject: Re: SU thing: here it is
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, jahan wrote:

> OS FreeBSD 2.2.1, 
> 
> why cannot su ?  what am I missing. Group is right.
> 
> See the output below.
> 
> 
> $ id 
> uid=1000(jahan) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)     
> $ su root   
> su: you are not in the correct group to su root. 
> $

Are you in the group file. Ie, /etc/group

Login as root, and do:

vi /etc/group

The wheel group will need to look something like:

wheel:*:0:root,jahan,user,user,user

where "user" are any other users who want su access.

Regards,

d.

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| Dean Hollister,           | deanh@iinet.net.au        |  
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