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From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do you allow a normal user to su to root?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:11:07 -0500
Organization: Orbit Systems
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.94.970319003147.10742B-100000@Stratus.CAM.ORG>,
General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada <ga_re@CAM.ORG>
wrote:

> 
>   What group should I be in ? I have this line in the group file:
> 
>     wheel:*:0:root:mario
> 


I think that should say: root,mario not root:mario

--Craig

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