From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 20:22:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09073 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:22:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mta2.gte.net (mta2.gte.net [207.115.153.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09067 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phbrown@gte.net) Received: from smtp2.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.129.31]) by mta2.gte.net (Intermail v3.1 117 223) with ESMTP id <19971031042652.XAOH7288@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:26:52 -0600 Received: from pb486 (1Cust205.tnt1.redondo-beach.ca.da.uu.net [208.254.140.205]) by smtp2.mailsrvcs.net with SMTP id WAA18884 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:26:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34595D89.3040@gte.net> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:24:41 -0800 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@freebsd.org Subject: Editing /etc/group Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When installing any version of BSD I always add user "pb" with groupname "wheel" so I can use the system without so much fear of wiping everything out inadvertantly. So I want to be able to use the "su" command occasionally while logged in as pb. The system won't let me do that, and if I remember correctly my userid must be appended to the "wheel" line in /etc/group. The adduser command (executed while logged in as root) didn't add my userid to /etc/group. I believe that editing a system file like that in a haphazzard fashion could make me have to reinstall the whole system (again), and I really don't what to risk it. MY QUESTION: are the userids in /etc/group separated by a semicolon or a comma? Or something else? With your guidance I can just edit the file myself and be on my way! Thank you.