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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:04:03 +0000
From:      nik@iii.co.uk
To:        george <GEORGE@icesys.po.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: su command problem
Message-ID:  <19980121110403.55489@iii.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199801210617-35180@icesys.po.my>; from george on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:35:51AM %2B0000
References:  <199801210617-35180@icesys.po.my>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:35:51AM +0000, george wrote:
> I bought and installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 recently. I am facing with the 
> following problem: I could logon to the system as root howerver when I logon 
> as normal user and try to su to root it give a error message:
> 
> "You are not in the correct group to su..."

    % man su
    ...
      Only users listed in group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to ``root'', un-
      less this group is empty.
    ...

Add your self to the 'wheel' group by editing /etc/group.

N
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