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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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