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From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD Docs...
Date: 4 Oct 1993 12:47:46 -0400
Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn
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hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes:

>Well, The $1000 question is are there any? Aside from the man pages,
>are there any docs to unusual things such as what group a user has
>to be in order to be able to su root...

Added the user to the wheel group in the /etc/group file.  Ie: if the
user that you want to be able to SU to root is "rls", change the line
that says...

wheel:*:0:root

to...

wheel:*:0:root,rls

And that should work (Note: Those lines are from the top of my head,
but they should be real close).


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