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To: Iain Templeton <iaint@CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 1997 11:00:13 +1000."
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> On Tue, 13 May 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote:
> 
> > In order to do "su" put your group into /etc/group behind
> >         wheel:*:0:root,yourgroup
> > 
> I always thought that is was the username that you put there, since you
> are making the user a member of the group wheel, and allowing the user
> access. (This is what su(1) man page seems to say anyway)

You're right. You do put the username in there. 
Mine looks like this:
wheel:*:0:root,pvl
> 
> I suppose if you have the user and group names the same it might get a bit
> confusing.
> 
> Iain.
> 

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Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen
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