> I recently installed 4.5 from the CD, and while adding user "amar", I
> set the primary group to wheel. But now when I try to do a "su -", I
> am kicked out for not being in group wheel. Though FAQ 10.1 says that
> one has to be manually added to group wheel if su - is needed, does it
> mean that folks having primary group as wheel are denied? Did I miss
> something very obvious?
>
> Here is the transcript:
> ==========================================
> $ id
> uid=1001(amar) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
> $ su -
> Password:
> you are not in group wheel
I don't know why it is so difficult to read the manual pages
% man su
If group 0 (normally ``wheel'') has users listed then only those users
can su to ``root''. It is not sufficient to change a user's /etc/passwd
entry to add them to the ``wheel'' group; they must explicitly be listed
in /etc/group. If no one is in the ``wheel'' group, it is ignored, and
anyone who knows the root password is permitted to su to ``root''.
