Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 09:04:33 +0100 From: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@lirmm.fr> To: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a few new-user questions Message-ID: <199501290804.JAA01980@lirmm.lirmm.fr> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:33:25 EST." <199501290333.AA07747@IndyNet.indy.net>
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Salut,
In the message a few new-user questions,
jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) wrote :
>
>As a FreeBSD rookie, I've got a few questions:
>
>1) I created an account for myself at the end of the install. It asked for
>a group and I gave it the name of a new group. If I log in under that
>account ('jerry'), I can't 'su'. It says that I don't belong to a group
>than can 'su'.
add jerry in the group ``wheel'' in /etc/group
(jerry can be in multiple groups)
e.g wheel:*:0:root,jerry
> I edited /etc/passwd and changed the group for 'jerry' to
>wheel (which is 0). This didn't change a thing.
>
Noooooooooooooooo!
If you want to edit passwd file, you MUST use vipw command
vipw == vi + update passwords database
>How can I get modify my account so I can 'su'? I am currently having to
>login as root to do any real work on the system.
see above
>
>2) How can I add or remove users and groups? I tried the 'adduser' command
>but there isn't an executable under that name (at least not in the path).
>Is it safe to just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group?
>
$ vi /etc/group
$ vipw
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Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr
LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France
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