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From: ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough)
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Subject: Re: Root Access
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Date: 4 May 90 00:55:29 GMT
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In article <92018@tiger.oxy.edu> tuchngo@oxy.edu (Theodore Richard Harvey) writes:
>In the process of getting our cubes up and running we have encountered
>a problem.  There are three users we wish to give access to so they can
>su to the root.  We set those users groups to 'wheel' which is susposed
>to allow one to su to the root granted they know the root password.
>However, we still get the message 'not allowed to su to the root.'  Is
>there anything else we have to add or what?

I had the same problem...and I DID load the groups file into NetInfo,
and STILL had the problem.  So, if you loaded NetInfo (as another person
suggested in another article) and it still doesn't work, it may be that
you put a <space> after the commas in the list of users?  NetInfo doesn't
savvy that...your comma-separated list must be space-free.

Ronnie