From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 26 07:19:30 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 977D516A41F for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:19:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D0243D45 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip01.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.5]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWQ0059G4CBCBO0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:19:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip01.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:19:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:18:31 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <70e6afb60603252245v45458444x@mail.gmail.com> To: Saul Mena Avila Message-id: <44264047.6000301@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <70e6afb60603252245v45458444x@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks! and... the su command 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: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:19:30 -0000 Saul Mena Avila wrote: > Hi!. Thanks for helping me with the USB flash memory. I've also have trouble > with the su command... since I installed the FreeBSD 5.4, everytime I try to > login as root with su, the shell answers me with "Sorry"... and that's all. > Is it wrong configured or installed? > > -saul > Hi, Check to see if you belong to the wheel group. As root #pw groupshow wheel If your user name doesn't appear then do this #pw groupmod wheel -m your_user_name_here Next time you log in as that user you should be able to su to root --Duane Whitty