From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 6 21:21:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16628 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16596 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01663; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:19:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:19:34 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can't su root In-Reply-To: <35A18B3A.F37D96A2@smartmedia.com.ar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote: > i can su root with user marcelo. but can't with user beto. why this? > i don't think i changed anything. su(1) looks at /etc/group to determine whether a user belongs to wheel; and ignores the login group in /etc/passwd. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live your own life, for you will die your own death To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message