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From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do you allow a normal user to su to root?
Date: 19 Mar 1997 09:41:19 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada <ga_re@CAM.ORG> wrote:
> When I try, I get :
> su: you are not in the correct group to su root.
> What group should I be in ? I have this line in the group file:
> wheel:*:0:root:mario
^
I think this should be a "," .
"man group" says:
...
The member field contains the names of users granted the privi-
leges of group. The member names are separated by commas without spaces
or newlines. A user is automatically in a group if that group was speci-
fied in their /etc/passwd entry and does not need to be added to that
group in the /etc/group file.
...
> Mario Mendes
> RGA Canada
Bye, Philipp
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