Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:42:07 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can't su root Message-ID: <19980707104207.A12766@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980707161817.6092A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:19:34PM %2B1200 References: <35A18B3A.F37D96A2@smartmedia.com.ar> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980707161817.6092A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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 <mph@pobox.com> * 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
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