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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA172 ; Fri, 29 Jan 93 03:01:50 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!bogus.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!demon!alice!peter From: peter@alice.wonderland.org () Subject: Re: su problems. Message-ID: <C1JBwH.E0A@demon.co.uk> Sender: news@demon.co.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: wonderland.org Organization: Demon Internet Services. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1993Jan27.070108.27600@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:00:15 GMT Lines: 19 GALBRAITH JOHN (galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote: : On my 386bsd machine, nobody can su to root. There is no : password (confirmed by checking the password file a hundred times), yet : it asks for one anyway. I tried setting a password, but it would not : accept it. The /etc/group file is ok too. : The only way to become root is from the login: prompt. Then, : no password is needed. Obviously, this is a pain. Does anybody know : what is going on? Thanks. Users who are allowed to su must be in the "wheel" group. On a similar note "su -c command" doesn;t seem to work for me, or am I being stupid ? -- Peter Galbavy e-mail: P.Galbavy@wonderland.org Wonderland "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing's ever forgotten."