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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:49:32 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net>, "Joseph Norris" <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: question about adduser and root -- correction
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.20000213124930.0068a0cc@idx.com.au>

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When you adduser.

It will prompt you for the group you want. 
Make sure the group you want is "wheel".

Then you should be able to su

At 13:56 11/02/00 -0800, Steve Leibel wrote:
>At 1:30 PM -0800 2/11/00, Joseph Norris wrote:
>>Hello group,
>>
>>I have added a new user and I wanted that user to be able to use su. When I
>>log on as the user and try to do su, I get an error that the user is not
>>part of the group. Did do something wrong the adduser? How can I fix this?
>
>
>
>wheel:*:0:root,stevel
>
>where "stevel" is the user to be allowed to su.
>
>======  sorry what I meant to say was that this line goes in
>
>/etc/group.
>
>Steve L
>
>
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