From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 07:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13213 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13203 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26437; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:18:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980416101844.08376@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:18:44 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: El Diablo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd root Mail-Followup-To: El Diablo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3535BBE0.2C6B180B@wt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3535BBE0.2C6B180B@wt.net>; from El Diablo on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:05:53AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:05:53AM -0500, El Diablo wrote: > when trying to su root as a normal user, freebsd doent allow this even > if the user is in the same group as root (wheel). How do I allow this? > I have a few priviledged users to have root access. I am running > FreeBSD with MD5 encryptions (not kerebos). "su" does not look at the primary group (the one that is a field in /etc/passwd). Make sure that the users are listed in the /etc/group entry for wheel, like so: wheel:*:0:root,mph -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message