From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 1: 0:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f254.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.148.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D6937B966 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 01:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam_hefetz@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 01:00:29 -0700 Received: from 62.0.162.97 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [62.0.162.97] From: "Adam Hefetz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user permissions Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:00:29 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Aug 2000 08:00:29.0850 (UTC) FILETIME=[0D0FBFA0:01C002A1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have problems with my user permissions. When trying to reboot I get this: $ shutdown -r now bash: /sbin/shutdown: Permission denied I tried doing 'chown adam:wheel /sbin/shutdown' but then I get this message: shutdown: NOT super-user Also, when I try using ppp I get this message: default: User access denied Please tell me what files should I change and to what permissions. Thanks, Adam ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message