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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!eurocontrol.fr!polaris.eurocontrol.fr!not-for-mail From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot SU Root Date: 31 Jul 1996 13:16:25 GMT Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4tnmb9$aie@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> References: <31FFCB8E.714A@ctcc.gov.za> <4tnj7p$3ji@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.eurocontrol.fr [courtesy cc of this posting sent to both cited authors via email] In article <4tnj7p$3ji@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de>, Eckart Hofmann <hofmanne@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de> wrote: > Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= Coetzee (acoetzee@ctcc.gov.za) wrote: > > When I log in as root, a message is displayed that I should rather log in > > as myself and then SU to root. When I try this, I am told that I am in > > the wrong group to SU root. > Choose the group "wheel" as group for your user you want to add. You must add the user in the wheel group as Eckart said but it does not need to be the primary (and it had better not). Put the user in a group as usual but add the name in /etc/group for wheel. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TIS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr Usenet Canal Historique