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From: zoss@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Zoss)
Subject: Re: 386bsd: permission denied for all but root!
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 00:17:50 GMT
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The su command is giving me problems, too.  I don't know what I did to cause
this, but I can no longer su to root.  (I AM in the wheel group!)  I type su
and 386BSD responds with "Password:"

Yet there is no password protection for root!  I can log on as root and it
doesn't prompt for a password.

Dave Zoss
zoss@cory.berkeley.edu
-- 
Dave Zoss
zoss@cory.berkeley.edu
"I'm not just the author of X11 applications.  I'm also a client."