Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:41:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> Cc: jadeite <jadeite@light.pomona.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in 1014??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961113174110.26765E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961113095544.23811C-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > A user will be in any group that you specify in /etc/passwd. > > You need to be in group wheel to su. > > I was listed as being in group 0 in /etc/passwd > and in master.passwd of course. > But su was only reading /etc/group evidently and group was not > automatically updated. I didn't have to touch it in 2.1.5. > Any other ideas? You did use vipw to make those changes to passwd, right? Direct editing of /etc/passwd does not work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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