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From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Marik Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: su Root?
Date: 9 Jan 1996 18:08:49 GMT
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Mauricio Tavares (raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu) wrote:
: 	I hope this is a fast question:  I've created a normal user
: account for me to use instead of root.  However, I can't su root from
: that account; I keep getting an error message saying I am in the wrong
: group to su root.  I do not want to add me to wheel group (I am
: currently in staff); what should I do then?  

: BTW, we are talking about NetBSD 1.1 in a Sun 3/50.

You can be in both groups!

Add yourself to /etc/group like this:

wheel:*:0:root,your_user_name_here

And there you go...

Mark