From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 13:41:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01583 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server4.mpcbbs.com.br (server4.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01414 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from capriotti@geocities.com) Received: from hot_nt (node03.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.3]) by server4.mpcbbs.com.br (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA06046 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:41:00 -0200 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980226193532.0092e600@pop.mpc.com.br> X-Sender: capriotti@pop.mpc.com.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:38:53 -0300 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Capriotti Subject: Re: telnet root login Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm soprry for the stupid question, but beginners are like that... Per what Jon said, I must add all of my root-level users to the group wheel using some sort of application, right ? (which application ?) At 09:17 AM 2/27/98 +1300, you wrote: >On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Capriotti wrote: > >> $ id >> uid=1003(bala1) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) >> $ su >> su: you are not in the correct group to su root. > >[Happened to me last month as well] > >su(1) doesn't look at your gid, it looks at /etc/group. If you >don't have the entry for bala1 within wheel in /etc/group, it won't >allow you to su to root. >-- >Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves > | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. > > >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