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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R: newbie (kernel rebuild/su)
Date: 05 Dec 1994 14:59:52 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <3buc3t$ncu@risky.ecs.umass.edu> nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu
(Joonwoo Nam) writes:

>    When I try 'su root', I get the following message:
>    'you are not in the correct group to su root.'

You have to be in the group `wheel' to be able to su to root.  It
doesn't have to be your primary group ID; adding your name to the
`wheel' line in /etc/group is enough. Look at the appropriate manual
page for the format of /etc/group; it is probably group(4).  (It may
be necessary that you log in again or invoke `newgrp wheel'.)

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen