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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
 


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