Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:55:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: larry_nilsen <larry_nilsen@eee.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login as root? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810010851270.554-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.0.67.19981001205843.009fddc0@pop.ozemail.com.au>
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jim Mock wrote: >At 02:08 AM 10/1/98 -0700, you wrote: >Once you get logged in, type whoami at the prompt. It should say root. >Then you can add yourself to the wheel group. To do it, you'll need to >know how to use a text editor. Read the man page for vi (man vi) for the >commands used with vi. It'd be a good idea to open them on a separate >virtual terminal so you can read it while you're using it. > >To add yourself to the wheel group, do the following at the prompt.. > >cd /etc >vi group I strongly recommend that you use the "ee" text editor if you are a beginner. "Vi" is incredibly hard to understand for a beginner. So instead of "vi group" your should type "ee group". (To everyone else: Don't even start. I don't want editor wars. I just want to make it easy on a new user.) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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