Re: can't su to root

From: Bart Matthaei (bart@dreamflow.nl)
Date: 03/28/02 

Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:18:34 +0100
From: Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl>
To: Christoph Wegener <cwe@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

> are you member of the wheel group?!?

Hasn't to do anything with the wheel group.
If the user isn't in the wheel group, he'd get a "Not in the correct
group to su root"-error.

The problem is probably the lack of a suid-bit.

Regards,

Bart 

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