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On Nov 1, 2004, at 6:52 PM, Dan Ferris wrote:

> This is probably a dumb question.
>
> I need to add a user that can su to root.  So....
>
> I add the user with adduser, invite the user into the wheel group (GID 
> 0) then add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group
>
> su still fails.  What am I missing?  It's go to be something really 
> dumb.

What error are you getting?  Are you using root's password or the user 
password?
Look at security/sudo from the ports.

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