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Re: [cobalt-users] su to root from userlevel
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] su to root from userlevel
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Nov 18 02:18:01 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> > My server is cobalt raq4r. I am one of the administrator. When i am doing
> > *ssh* to the server using *putty*, after using login with my own userid, i am
> > unable to do *su - root* , it is giving *wrong password*..
> >
> > Somewhere my userid has permission problem that is why i am unable to do
> > the su -root. But once i entered into the root using *admin* userid then from
> > my userid i can do *su - root*... So which file i need to check. I need some
> > hints...
>
> /etc/passwd, you need to be a member of the "wheel group"
Excuse me! the file is /etc/group...
Gerald
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