-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Payson wrote: > Dirk Raeder wrote: > > That was it! But now I'm confused... All along, id showed that I was in > wheel: > > uid=1000(mike) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),5(tty),10(wheel),18(audio) > > In addition, I couldn't su to another normal user, though I can now. Can > only wheel users change to other normal users as well? > > Ok... a bit more digging... I take it id reads it's groups from the > gshadow file, but that su only looks in the groups file... That seems > like a bug to me-- or is there method behind the madness? > AFAIK, id shows the values you logged in with - su uses the most recent ones. IOW, the files that are on disk.
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