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