On 01-Oct-98 Bob Savage wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I had editted the /etc/group correctly, but my su is aliased to "su
> -m" (don't know if that makes a difference). At any rate I added /sbin to
> my path, so I'm all set.
> 

Yes it does.  "su -m" specifically instructs su not to modify your environment,
so although you may have root authority, you don't have any of the
environment--including PATH--variables set to what root would normally need. 
I'd recommend removing the alias.

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