From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 28 3:16:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A739B37B447 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2SBGR526323 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:16:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h68n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.68]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08267 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:16:26 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 10800 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Mar 2002 11:16:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:16:25 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Radzivilyuk V.O." Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't su to root Message-ID: <20020328111624.GA10686@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "Radzivilyuk V.O." , security@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:08:42PM +0200, Radzivilyuk V.O. wrote: > hi. > > Have FreeBSD 4.3.release > Can't su to root. > Sure type right password. > $su > Password: > Sorry > $ > > Accept only if login as root. > Reinstall binary & kernel source > + reboot, config -r CORE, make depend, make, make install, reboot > Have still the same. > > Help understand the reason. You must be a member of the wheel group to be able to su to root. You can check what groups you belong to with the groups(1) command. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message