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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!tiamat.umd.umich.edu!crt From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD Docs... Date: 4 Oct 1993 12:47:46 -0400 Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn Lines: 28 Message-ID: <crt.749753145@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> References: <28o2nm$2am@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: cw-u02.umd.umich.edu hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes: >Well, The $1000 question is are there any? Aside from the man pages, >are there any docs to unusual things such as what group a user has >to be in order to be able to su root... Added the user to the wheel group in the /etc/group file. Ie: if the user that you want to be able to SU to root is "rls", change the line that says... wheel:*:0:root to... wheel:*:0:root,rls And that should work (Note: Those lines are from the top of my head, but they should be real close). /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/ Innovative Data Services /\ IBM-PC Demo-Site Maintainer! \/ /\ Custom Hardware/Software \/ wasp.eng.ufl.edu (128.227.116.1) /\ \/ Computer Consulting /\-------------------------------------------\/ /\ MS-Dos, UNIX, Mac, Windows, \/ Mail Addresses: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu /\ \/ OS/2, and Amiga! /\ rls@freefall.cdrom.com \/ /\ (313)478-3554 \/ dmw@wasp.eng.ufl.edu /\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/