From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 1:24: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9066837B613 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 01:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.31]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000810092307.JNKU3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:23:07 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA02170; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:23:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:23:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Adam Hefetz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user permissions Message-ID: <20000810092356.A253@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from adam_hefetz@hotmail.com on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:00:29AM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:00:29AM +0000, Adam Hefetz wrote: > 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 > User "adam" needs to be in the wheel group. > Also, when I try using ppp I get this message: > > default: User access denied > The user you are running as (adam?) needs to be in the network group and you need allow user adam in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf HTH > 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 -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message