On Mar 5,  1:35pm, Peter Teichmann wrote:
> Subject: Re: stty bug?
> > > Another problem: When I login as root I get the advice that I should not
> > > login as root, but shall use su. So I created another user uid 256 gid
> > > 256, but if I now try to "su root" I get a message that I am in the wrong
> > > group to su root.
> >
> >   Ok, Only members of the wheel group can su to root.
> >
> > Personally I am a member of wheel and operator. This lets me su to root
> > (wheel) and also lets me read/write to floppy,and run shutdown (operator).
> >
> >   To add your user to a new group, add its username to the end of that
> > group's line in the /etc/group file. I think changes take effect the next
> > time that user logs in.
> >
> >   Here's the first line of my /etc/group for example...
> > wheel:*:0:root,ale
> >
> >
> >   For more info on the group file see man group.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Ale.
>
> Ok, now it works! Thank you very much.
> But the problem with stty erase ^H still is the same if I do not login as
> root. Do yaou also have this problem?

Try copying root's .cshrc and .login programs (without the line about su'ing to
root).

Cheers

Rob