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Re: su and reactivate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 14 23:18:21 1995
To: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@livewire.mit.edu>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 1995 22:23:33 EST."
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 23:18:55 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> i am unable to su to root from my bdrosen account. i edited the
> /etc/group file to add myself to wheel and it works, but whenever i
> next log in i get a mesage about me being in too many groups and it
> appears that it gets rid of the entry so that i can't su.
The "too many groups" message is a known problem, and will take work
to solve that we haven't put in yet.
You should edit /etc/group.local as well as /etc/group to make
permanent changes. /etc/group gets replaced by /etc/group.local at
reactivation time, since xlogin and /usr/bin/login don't clean it up.
