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From: hw@thor.shn.com (Henning Wickhorst)
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Chet Puskarz-Carello (chet@redsky.com) wrote:
: Hi guys,
: I'm been having trouble setting up superuser access to root. When I 'su
: root' and sign on with the proper password, I get a reponse that user is
: not part of group.
: 
: I've designated the user to be group 0 (wheel) when I created the user.
: That I believe is the group that root belongs to.
: 
: Any ideas,

Check your /etc/groups file for that.
The line for group wheel should look like this:

	wheel:*:0:root,username


Henning

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