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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do you allow a normal user to su to root?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:38:52 +1000
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	General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada <ga_re@CAM.ORG>
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General American Compagnie de Reassurance-Vie du Canada 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

The list of users in the group is comma (,) separated!

Tony