From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 19:53: 1 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 19:52:59 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46BF37B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (fw237.ocsny.com [204.107.76.237]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA56135; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:52:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A53F307.B285AEC3@ocsinternet.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:50:31 -0500 From: mikel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MaTrIxDPN@aol.com Cc: Tim McMillen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Su[2] was: (no subject) References: <8c.ac9607.278548f5@aol.com> <01010322440503.08422@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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