Hey.

I noticed adding a user to wheel doesn't provide su capability
automatically. This is described in su(1).
I though it might be useful to mention it in group(5) also.

--- group.5     Sun Dec  9 14:14:58 2012
+++ group_change.5      Sun Dec  9 15:07:29 2012
@@ -81,7 +81,13 @@
 .Xr passwd 5
 entry and does not need to be added to that group in the
 .Nm
-file.
+file. Members of the
+.Dq wheel
+group, who wish to run commands as
+.Dq root ,
+using
+.Xr su 1 ,
+must be explicitly listed.
 .\" .Pp
 .\" When the system reads the file
 .\" .Pa /etc/group

Best wishes.

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