New Users unable to SU

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I seem to have developed a problem on my system. I can add new users
> either via the adduser script or using 'sysinstall'. The problem is that
> none of them can become root. They are all in the 'wheel' group, so it
> should be working. I am the only user that can access the root. They can
> use 'sudo' but that doesn't fix the problem.

The users need to be listed in /etc/group as belonging to `wheel'. The
login group-id isn't consulted by su(1).
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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