>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:35:13 -0800
>From: Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@engr.orst.edu>

>I'd like to be able to su from my user account, and still be part of the
>'staff' group.
>How can this be done?

Make 'wheel' one of you supplemental groups.  Edit /etc/group, and
find a line that starts with 'wheel'.  Change it so it looks like:

wheel:*:0:root,gelbard

After that you should be able to su to root.
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