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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!delmarva.com!udel-eecis!gatech!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!usenet From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@imf.unit.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please Help Me Use /usr/bin/su Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:03:02 +0100 Organization: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Lines: 25 Sender: arnej@chur.imf.unit.no Message-ID: <efcu3ng695l.fsf@chur.imf.unit.no> References: <5dr18u$4l3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chur.imf.unit.no X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35565 tsmurphy@cs.uiuc.edu (TERENCE MURPHY) writes: > I have just installed 2.2-GAMMA, my first BSD experience, and I like > it, however I have one problem with /usr/bin/su. I am in the group > ``wheel'' like the manpage says, but I still have little luck. I > looked for this is the FAQ but found nothing. Here is a transcript: > > sonja:[p2]/[17:50:06]:~% groups > wheel > sonja:[p2]/[17:50:09]:~% su > su: kerberos: not in root's ACL. > su: you are not in the correct group to su root. > > I believe only the second error message is important. It looks like you are only a member in /etc/passwd, not in /etc/group. The su code will not check which groups you actually have active like `groups`, it will get the list of members of group 0 and check if you are a member of that list. See also PR 1882, which in addition to changing a bit of system policy (when wheel group is empty), fixes the documentation to say that you must be *listed* in group 0. - Arne H. J.