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From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: su root: who's in group "wheel"?
Date: 30 May 1995 12:39:24 -0500
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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In article <3pvip3$t05@Mars.mcs.com>,
Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote:
>In article <D92p8L.3xC@midway.uchicago.edu>,
>Tim Pierce  <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:

[ actual problem deleted ]

>>Is this a bug in getgrgid, or in su?  Or is it a bug at all?
>>(Sure looks that way to me.)
>
>Feature or design but definetly not bug, either way you have to be
>listed in /etc/group to su to root. Is this one in the FAQ 'cause it
>gets asked frequently?
>


I haven't looked for it lately, but I think I put it in there.


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Dave Burgess  (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses)
386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone
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