Re: can't su to root

From: Christoph Wegener (cwe@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: 03/28/02 

Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:27:16 +0100
From: Christoph Wegener <cwe@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl>

Hi,
YES, you are right - I unfortunately read to quick and missed his error
message - SORRY if I give a wrong hint...

Thanx for correction...
Christoph

Bart Matthaei wrote:

> > 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
>
> --
> Bart Matthaei bart@dreamflow.nl
>
> Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
>
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