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From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: SU and other problems
Date: 8 Oct 1993 18:31:15 GMT
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In article <ccsachris.9.750092634@augustana.edu> CHRIS METZL,
ccsachris@augustana.edu writes:
>SU doesn't work, I've got user with group 0, still don't work

You have to have the user specically mentioned in the /etc/group
file as being in group wheel.  This fixes the problem nicely.  I'm
not sure that it is the documented behavior, but I don't know.

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