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From: nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: su root Re: Can 'root' login through telnet connection?
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thansen@xmission.com writes:
|   I tried that and got a message that I was "not in the correct group
|to su to root."

You need to be in the "wheel" group (in /etc/group) to su to root.

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Timothy J. Lee                                                   timlee@
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