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From: kts@quintro.UUCP (Kenneth T. Smelcer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: su
Keywords: su root
Message-ID: <366@quintro.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 18:20:39 GMT
References: <12151@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: kts@quintro.UUCP (Kenneth T. Smelcer)
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In article <12151@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Pinhead@Spikes) writes:
>
>  I am attempting to 'su' to root, and it gives me a permission denied.
>To what PPO does my account need?  As of now it is andy.staff.none; root's
>is root.staff.none.
>
>  I am on a DN3500 running SR10.1.  Thanks in advance.
>
>a.
>-- 
>Andy Pippin                        "Beauty is only a lightswitch away..."
>apippin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU              "Thirty-one.   SOCIAL!!!"

At SR10.1, you must belong to group "wheel" in order to 'su' to root.
This is a convention direct from Berkeley.  Does anyone know of a way
to change this?

Something else I've noticed with su and root login in general.  The
first time you log in as root, either from the display or 'su', it
takes forever to start up.  It doesn't seem to do any special disk
access or eat processor time, it just sits for a while.  After the
first time (2 --> oo) everything is fine and is quite fast.  Any ideas?

BTW, my system is the same as above.

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