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To: Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com,
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Subject: Re: Regarding root logon
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You have to include the user in the group "wheel" in order for that user to su to
root.....

Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com wrote:

> Hi!
> Everybody,
>
> i have FreeBSD 4.2 Release installed, when i log on as normal user i am not able
> to use 'su' command to get
> root access i get error as
>
>           $ su
>                                 su: you are not in the correct group to su root.
>
> i want certain users to get root access, which are files to modify for above. i
> tried /etc/group to make user
> equivalent to root but it failed.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> bye
> prasad
>
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