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From: rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Problem with groups (su)
Keywords: su /etc/group rgyd
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.154313@ap.co.umist.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 91 15:43:13 GMT
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Reply-To: rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter)
Organization: UMIST Computation dept, Manchester, UK
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Hi!

Has anyone experienced the following, and do they have any solutions?:-

On certain nodes, an su is rebuffed with `You do not have permission to su
root'. The thing is, I *do*! Running groups(1) just prints a blank line, whilst
doing 'groups rn' gives the expected answer. Thus what I have to do to su root
is first to su to myself, and then su to root. This baffles me. Perhaps I've
missed something obvious. The only thing that happened before this started was
that I ran cops and tightened up things quite a bit ;->. It's obviously a
registry problem (aren't they all?) so any help would be appreciated. This is
for 10.1, don't have the diskspace to go to 10.3 yet...

bob 
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