Re: SUMMARY: su problems

From: Ken Teh <teh_at_chinook.phy.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 09:01:43 -0500

  Mark Van Overbeke writes:
>
> ...
>
>had not logged out and back in. I had some pointers to the man page. I
>found no references to put the userid into the system group to allow su to
>root from that account. I thought I had read through it carefully
>yesterday, so I did again this morning. Still no references to the system
>group or the /etc/group file. Thanks for all the help.
>

I beg to differ. 'man su' clearly states and I quote:

  "If no user is specified, root is assumed. Only users who belong to
  group number 0 (zero) can issue su to become root, even with the root
  password."
Received on Wed May 03 1995 - 10:02:15 NZST

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