Really Dumb Question

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Dienstag, 2. November 2004 01:52 schrieb Dan Ferris:
> This is probably a dumb question.
>
> I need to add a user that can su to root.  So....
>
> I add the user with adduser, invite the user into the wheel group (GID
> 0) then add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group

You don't need to maually add the su-permitted user to the group 'wheel' 
in /etc/group.
That's what 'adduser' does for you if you, like you said, invite the user to 
group wheel.
I don't understand the problem but I guess you made an error when 
(unneccessarily) editing /etc/group.

-Mano

>
> su still fails.  What am I missing?  It's go to be something really dumb.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Dan
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