Bug 149743 – Doc correction: Must be in wheel group to use 'su'

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description [e-mail] 2006-10-01 09:23:51 UTC]

Code listing 12 in Part 1, Chapter 2 of the PPC handbook 2006.1 shows how to add a user, and code listing 13 shows how to su to root, but there is no mention of adding the user to the wheel group. Please change code listing 12 from:

# useradd -m -G users john
# passwd john
New password: (Enter john's password)
Re-enter password: (Re-enter john's password)

To:

# useradd -m -G users,wheel john
# passwd john
New password: (Enter john's password)
Re-enter password: (Re-enter john's password)

Or make mention of the fact that membership in the wheel group is prerequisite to using 'su'.

Thanks

[Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2006-10-01 11:34:18 UTC]

Code listing 13 shows how to su from root to john, not vice versa. Thanks for reporting, anyway.

[Comment 2 [e-mail] 2006-10-01 11:55:42 UTC]

whoops, that's totally right :-S

My bad!