Theo de Raadt ha scritto:
I recently installed 4.5 from the CD, and while adding user "amar", I
set the primary group to wheel. But now when I try to do a "su -", I
am kicked out for not being in group wheel. Though FAQ 10.1 says that
one has to be manually added to group wheel if su - is needed, does it
mean that folks having primary group as wheel are denied? Did I miss
something very obvious?
Here is the transcript:
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$ id
uid=1001(amar) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
$ su -
Password:
you are not in group wheel
I don't know why it is so difficult to read the manual pages
Please, Theo, dont be silly! Why using man when you can ask to a mailing
list for free? :)
% man su
If group 0 (normally ``wheel'') has users listed then only those users
can su to ``root''. It is not sufficient to change a user's /etc/passwd
entry to add them to the ``wheel'' group; they must explicitly be listed
in /etc/group. If no one is in the ``wheel'' group, it is ignored, and
anyone who knows the root password is permitted to su to ``root''.
