Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:52:20 +0200 From: Barry Irwin <bvi@devco.net> To: Faisal Gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing group ? Message-ID: <20010314095220.F22889@devco.net> In-Reply-To: <007501c0acbe$93dcaad0$04036b83@terminal4>; from fasi_74@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:40:07AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10103130846420.29714-100000@misery.sdf.com> <007501c0acbe$93dcaad0$04036b83@terminal4>
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On Wed 2001-03-14 (11:40), Faisal Gillani wrote: > 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 Users must be a member of the wheel group in order to su to root (superuser). You can add users to this group by editing /etc/group, or preferably using the pw(8) utility. This problem and the solutionis documented in the su(1) man page. Next time have a look at the docs :-) Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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