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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Groups and su problem
Date: 6 Jun 1995 11:48:16 +0200
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Justin Farrell <Justin.Farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>I am having problems with setting up a user that can "su" to root
under FreeBSD. >When I add the username to the "wheel" group that
user can "su" alright - however >once the user is a member of the
wheel group he has problems with using various >applications such as
vi (can't access /tmp or something like that).
Are the directories /tmp and /var/tmp of permission 1777 (drwxrwxrwt)?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)