From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 22:51:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C515B37B719 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2E6oi270987; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <019901c0ac53$1742f120$029b140a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Faisal Gillani" , Subject: Re: changing group ? Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:50:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message