From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 04:43:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E1B16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543F043D49 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:43:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8448B56470; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:43:20 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:43:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Deling Ren Message-ID: <20050119044320.GA7605@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20050118113615.D85254@sun.home.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050118113615.D85254@sun.home.homeunix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't su, already in wheel group. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:43:22 -0000 On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:42:49AM -0800, Deling Ren wrote: > Hi al, I am trying to install an embedded freebsd 5.3 onto a single board > computer. Since I am trying to fit everything into a 128M CF, I can't do a > normal installation. Instead, I copied over from a PC. It seems to be > running well, except I can't su. The user is in wheel group: > > %pw user show admin > admin:*:1500:0::0:0:User &:/home/admin:/bin/tcsh > %id admin > uid=1500(admin) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) You need to add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group. su doesn't look at the login group. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly