On Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:42:00 +0000 (GMT),
Duncan Reed <dreed@palantir.soc.staffs.ac.uk> wrote about groups:
> According to the man pages by setting a users gid to 0 they should then
> be able to do an 'su'. But this just gives the message not in the 
> correct group. Adding the user to the wheel group in /etc/group does
> then allow the user to 'su' but according to the man pages this
> should not be nessesary if the user gid is 0.
Better have them in the group 'wheel', though, no 'normal' user should
have gid '0', those trips with 'su' are meant for system configuration
installing new software/kernel etc.

> Duncan
> 
> 
Greetings,
    Ruben

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