From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 10: 4:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4D815708 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:04:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA76004; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:04:53 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:04:53 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Douglas Flock Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU command In-Reply-To: <37FA827C.56699E7A@mccue.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Douglas Flock wrote: >Folks, > >I am getting an error using the SU command: > > Oct 2 06:08:38 myname SU: BAD SU >dougf to root on /dev/ttyE0 > >I have user as member of group Wheel, as required. > >What am I missing? Is something corrupted? Da you have the correct user in group wheel? Do you have the right syntax in /etc/groups? You said group Wheel. Did you mean group wheel? IIRC, if you have group wheel problem su will say something like "not a member of group wheel" Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message