Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:40 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: <tanniru.sankar@wipro.com> Cc: n.subburaman@gmail.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reg, User rights Message-ID: <20070222011340.17bece93@localhost> In-Reply-To: <8B9F8433B684734581EB519F1A3E5AF4748F40@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> References: <1a61db890702210222h5e7258aaw8c4caac677cd278d@mail.gmail.com> <8B9F8433B684734581EB519F1A3E5AF4748F40@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com>
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[Format recovered - PLEASE don't top post! ] > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of subbu ramanN > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:53 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Reg, User rights > > Dear Team, > This is subburaman from Bangalore, india.I have > installed the FreeBSD6.2.Now i want to create a new User with > Administrator rights.Please give me the guidelines for me. > > Thanks with regards > > Subburaman N On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:30:10 +0530 <tanniru.sankar@wipro.com> wrote: > From: <tanniru.sankar@wipro.com> > To: <n.subburaman@gmail.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> > Cc: > Subject: RE: Reg, User rights > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:30:10 +0530 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > > > Hi, > > While creating user accout using 'adduser' command, give 'Login > group' as 'wheel' which will give administrator rights for that > particular username. > > Regards. > Hi Subburaman, please read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users.html Membership to the wheel group will give you some more access than not belonging to that group, but probably is not what you have in mind (if you come from a MS Windows background where belonging to "Administrator" group is all you really need to wreak hav[del del] err... "manage" a system ;). It will definitely allow you to su to root... _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Anyone who isn?t confused here doesn?t really understand what?s going on. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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