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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!usenet From: rjh@pacinfo.net (R J Huntington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Enabling SU ability for a user Date: 1 Apr 1996 20:51:02 GMT Organization: Pacific Information Exchange Inc Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4jpfjm$kv1@rigel.pixi.com> References: <960331.165643.2716@banshee.uunet.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus.pixi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 In article <960331.165643.2716@banshee.uunet.ca>, kschafer@cyberbeach.net propones... > >I want to enable a certain user to execute SU to change to root >access, how exactly do I go about enabling this feature ? Add the username to group 0 in /etc/group. You need to be root, of course. The first line of /etc/group probably looks like: wheel:*:0:root Make it look like this: wheel:*:0:root,username Once you save the file, the user 'username' will be able to su to root. You should do this for the system admin as well, and disallow root logins altogether.