From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 23:49: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.dev.itouchnet.net (mx1.dev.itouchnet.net [196.14.181.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A12A37B719 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bvi@devco.net) Received: from nobody by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with scanned_ok (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14d65m-000B6c-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:53:10 +0200 Received: from [196.14.181.39] (helo=e0-ter-fw1.dev.itouchnet.net) by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14d65l-000B6N-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:53:09 +0200 Received: from daemon.prv.dev.itouchnet.net ([192.168.8.10]) by e0-ter-fw1.dev.itouchnet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 14d61X-000HWn-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:48:47 +0200 Received: from bvi by daemon.prv.dev.itouchnet.net with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14d64y-00070U-00; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:52:20 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:52:20 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: Faisal Gillani Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing group ? Message-ID: <20010314095220.F22889@devco.net> References: <007501c0acbe$93dcaad0$04036b83@terminal4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <007501c0acbe$93dcaad0$04036b83@terminal4>; from fasi_74@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:40:07AM -0800 X-Checked: This message has been scanned for any virusses and unauthorized attachments. X-iScan: Version $Id: iScan,v 1.26 2000/10/08 14:12:55 rip Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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