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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bug in 1014???
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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