From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 7:51: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.fifthace.com (ip114.fifthace.com [216.218.200.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873B137C1FA for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheber@mwci.net) Received: from seanheber ([198.45.23.5]) by marvin.fifthace.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA97499 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:51:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sheber@mwci.net) Message-ID: <001701bff8a3$2461f360$05172dc6@seanheber> From: "Sean Heber" To: Subject: Can't become root.. Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:50:14 -0500 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, this is a stupid question and I fully understand if it's laughed at.. :-) Last night I began an FTP install of FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE over my modem. This morning it was done. So, I rebooted into it and added a new user for myself. Then I went to work. My plan was to mess with installing the various ports and things I want during free time at work. Since I have a modem, this takes a long time (which is why I wanted to do this all at work so when I got home things were ready to play with). Unfortuntatly, I forgot to put myself in the wheel group and so I can't su to root. And root is, of course, not allowed to login via telnet by default. So.. Is there ANY possible way around this or am I just stuck until I get home? *hangs head in shame* Thanks, Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message