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#! rnews 1475 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.misc:76 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:1701 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: su root: who's in group "wheel"? Date: 30 May 1995 12:39:24 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3qfl8c$4lp@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <D92p8L.3xC@midway.uchicago.edu> <3pvip3$t05@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <3pvip3$t05@Mars.mcs.com>, Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote: >In article <D92p8L.3xC@midway.uchicago.edu>, >Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote: [ actual problem deleted ] >>Is this a bug in getgrgid, or in su? Or is it a bug at all? >>(Sure looks that way to me.) > >Feature or design but definetly not bug, either way you have to be >listed in /etc/group to su to root. Is this one in the FAQ 'cause it >gets asked frequently? > I haven't looked for it lately, but I think I put it in there. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) 386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone that wants to do it...."