From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 14:48:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2031A16A412 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA55743D45 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:48:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k95EmoU9057824; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:48:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> <20061005132529.5b59824f.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20061005132529.5b59824f.albi@scii.nl> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610051048.27503.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: thomas@hindsight.de Subject: Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:48:53 -0000 On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 > > thomas@hindsight.de wrote: > > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the > > wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For > > some reason I have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the > > system "do not have permission" to effect the command. Went back as > > root on a later session and re-entered my name in /etc/group to the > > wheel account to no avail, anybody got an idea as to where I need to > > look? > > # ls -la /sbin/shutdown > -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 431524 May 2 16:40 /sbin/shutdown > > what about group operator ? but i personally would use sudo instead of > group wheel etc. I always assign myself to the operator group for just this reason; shutdown works fine without su or sudo. JN