From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 10:30:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1B1150ED for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA07636; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:39:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903041839.NAA07636@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NFS mounting /home In-Reply-To: <19990303023931.A62623@drwho.xnet.com> from Michael Maxwell at "Mar 3, 99 02:39:31 am" To: drwho@xnet.com (Michael Maxwell) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:39:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Maxwell wrote, > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 05:14:53PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > I don't understand this. You say you cannot su to root in multi-user > > mode (from another user I assume). But when you go into single user > > mode, you can su to root... which seems obvious since you already are > > root. Can you login as root from a console when you have the /home > > tree NFS mounted? > > Is the user account being used to 'su' a member of group "wheel"? The original poster said he was getting the 'Sorry' response. If you are not in the wheel group, the error message is, % su su: you are not in the correct group to su root. Therefore, I assumed that was not the problem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message