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From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in
Subject: NetBSD 0.9: Unable to su to root from wheel group
Message-ID: <17JAN94.15533228@tifrvax.tifr.res.in>
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Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 15:53:32 GMT
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I've set myself in the wheel group (i tried variously sys, staff etc too).

Though id shows that im in group, su reports that im in the wrong group
to su to root.
???

I can live without su-ing to root i guess (i have, so far), but id like to
know why this happens.

bhiksha