Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:50:43 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: changing group ? Message-ID: <019901c0ac53$1742f120$029b140a@danco>
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>Well we finally set up FreeBSD 4.0 server on our windows LAN security is
not
>a issue here so we can easily use superuser to work on telnet
>but when we try to issue the su command it gives an error
>saying that you are not in the approriate group
You must add yourself to the 'wheel' group.
Login to the console as 'root' and edit /etc/group and add the user names
you want to be able to su to root to the 'wheel' line:
wheel:*:0:root,dan,bob,karen,steve,jim,barbara
Good luck,
--Dan
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