Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:21:41 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> To: Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems su-ing to root... Message-ID: <19970411092141.57201@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970410085617.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk>; from Anthony Barlow on Thu, Apr 10, 1997 at 08:56:17AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.A41.3.95.970408151515.17354A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <3.0.1.32.19970410085617.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk>
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Are you certain the solution is not as simple as adding the user in question manually to the /etc/group file, in addition to making the change as root via chpass? On Thu, Apr 10, 1997 at 08:56:17AM +0100, Anthony Barlow wrote: > We've noticed this as well with NIS if your using it. Make sure wheel is > the same on all the servers, on Linux which is still our main servers group > 0 is root, whereas in FreeBSD group 0 is wheel. As our NIS servers are on > Linux, this also created the can't cd to root, incorrect group. > > We did place +:*: at the end of our /etc/group file, but during the night > some cron job placed it at the beginning of the file. > > At 08:47 09-04-97 +1000, Andrew Perry wrote: > >Did you check in /etc/group to make sure you're in the wheel group? > > > >On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: > >> From: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co > >> > >> I am trying to su to root under FreeBSD under 2.2 Release and I receive a > >> message that I am not in the correct group. I am in wheel, am I doing > >> something wrong or did I find a bug? > >> > >> ( I used the old adduser script to add my account and left the root > >> account without password.) > > Regards, > Anthony > >
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