From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 29 1: 5:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu (exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811FB14DC0 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu (ppp20.pm2a.wport.com [206.129.99.69]) by exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id RKP91R63; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:04:34 -0700 Message-ID: <37C8E9D8.C24B3C5E@seattleu.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:05:44 -0700 From: Eric Hodel Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= ADAM Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: users managing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sébastien ADAM wrote: > > Hi there ! > > I'm new in FreeBSD and UNIX. I've installed FreeBSD 3.2 on my computer and I > wana make some configurations. My question is simple. How can I logon as > root? (stupid question, isn't? ;-) how can I manage the authorizations of > users? From the console of the machine, just login as 'root' from a telnet prompt you will have to add a user to the wheel group, login as that user, then su to root. You can change the settings in /etc/ttys to log in on remote consoles as root, but that is not recommended. (Security hole) -- Eric Hodel - hodeleri@seattleu.edu - Aspiring programmer & FPS minor demi-god. Customers will come to our 'home page' in unbelievable numbers and find out everything we want them to know. --Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message