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From: Tony Hernadez <tony@cne-inc.com>
To: "'tech-security@netbsd.org'" <tech-security@netbsd.org>
Subject: RE: 1.4.2 and adding users to be able to 'su'
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:29:06 -0400
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Cool, that was it man.. I just  new I was forgetting something. I use too
many versions of unix to keep it all straight in my head. 
Thanks All for the quick replies.

cheers,
--
Tony Hernandez
Network Engineer
Computer Network Experts


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:15 PM
To: Tony Hernadez
Subject: Re: 1.4.2 and adding users to be able to 'su'


Try adding a user to the wheel group in /etc/group
johnh...
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Tony Hernadez wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:11:23 -0400
> From: Tony Hernadez <tony@cne-inc.com>
> To: "'tech-security@netbsd.org'" <tech-security@netbsd.org>
> Subject: 1.4.2 and adding users to be able to 'su'
> 
> 
> I have tried to modify evey section of the /etc/passwd with vipw to add a
> user to the correct sendary group 'wheel' to be able to su ... why is this
> not working ? I need to be able to su every now and then in a telnet or
ssh
> session.
> 
> 
> thanks for any ideas and help all is greatly appreciated.
> 
> cheers,
> --
> Tony Hernandez
> Network Engineer
> Computer Network Experts
>