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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!news.fujitsu.com!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!ratatosk.yggdrasil.com!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!potogold.rmii.com!lucky.innet.com!lucky.innet.com!not-for-mail From: jamest@lucky.innet.com (Jame Stott) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Cant get SU to work!? Date: 2 Feb 1995 14:55:35 -0500 Organization: Internet Network Corporation Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3grdbn$cfc@lucky.innet.com> References: <3gp05k$msr@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: innet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I had the same type of thing happen - setup users with GID to 0 (wheel) and couldn't su after login. Add the users to the userlist in the /etc/group file...not a problem anymore ! Hope that's all you need to get going. Jim.. BenFreedmn (benfreedmn@aol.com) wrote: : I know that this sounds impossible, but I keep getting: : You are in the wrong group to su root : (or something similar) for the FreeBSD-2.0 release. Now, : I know that it wants me to be in group 0 (wheel), so : I created a user there, logged in and tried it and it : still happens. : My "su" command does not appear to have the -K option : even though it is described in the man page - something : to do with Kerbios authentication. So, I'm wondering : if my "su" is incompatible with the system... : I got the release from ftp.cdrom.com (not the CD) if it : matters. Most everything else seems to work. I even : got PCNFS working! But the !@#@#~! su command!!!! : Any ideas? -- James Stott -> jamest@innet.com ..---==+==---..