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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:50:31 -0500
From:      mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
To:        MaTrIxDPN@aol.com
Cc:        Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Su[2]  was: (no subject)
Message-ID:  <3A53F307.B285AEC3@ocsinternet.com>
References:  <8c.ac9607.278548f5@aol.com> <01010322440503.08422@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>

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ee /etc/group , or nano /etc/group or vi /etc/group if you must...

the first line reads
wheel:*:0:root
change it to read
wheel:*:0:root,YOU

of course the easiest way is to use pw...

pw groupshow wheel
pw groupmod wheel -m YOU
pw groupshow wheel

Of course none of these will work if you aren't already root...;)

cheers,
mikel


Tim McMillen wrote:

> On Wednesday January 03, 2001 22:33, MaTrIxDPN@aol.com wrote:
>
> > > It saids i cant su from this account, i cant remember what group it
> > had to be, what group is it?
>
>         That's a little more clear.  Still needs a subject line.  The user has
> to be in the group wheel to be able to su to root.  Best put there
> during adduser(8), though others could tell you how to add an existing
> user to the wheel group.
>
>                                         Tim
>
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