From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 07:42:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07067 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flarn.dyn.ml.org (mph@usr104.third-wave.com [147.72.122.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07057 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@flarn.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from mph@localhost) by flarn.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12836; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:42:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980707104207.A12766@flarn.dyn.ml.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:42:07 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Jonathan Chen , "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can't su root Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Chen , "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" , FreeBSD Questions References: <35A18B3A.F37D96A2@smartmedia.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:19:34PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:19:34PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > su(1) looks at /etc/group to determine whether a user belongs to wheel; > and ignores the login group in /etc/passwd. This was recently (25 May in 3.0, 4 June in 2.2) changed. su(1) now pays attention to the primary group as well as /etc/group. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message