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I used adduser to create a user in the wheel group, but when the user tries to su I get “su: you are not in the correct group to su root” Any suggestions?

April 26, 2017create group tries Used user wheel

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I used adduser to create a user in the wheel group, but when the user tries to su I get “su: you are not in the correct group to su root” Any suggestions?

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Do you have a line in /etc/group that says: wheel:*:0:root,your_user What’s important here is that wheel is group ID 0, and the list of users is delimited by the comma. The adduser command may not correctly set your group. Check the /etc/groups file and add it manually if needed.