From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 07:55:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12259 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (root@Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12210 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brownicm@netunlimited.net) Received: from malachi.my.domain (Saavik-41.netunlimited.net [208.158.212.170]) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA17936; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199807171437.JAA18215@horton.iaces.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Browning To: "Paul T. Root" Subject: Re: can't su Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, plamendp@techno-link.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Jul-98 Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Chris Browning said: >> >> On 17-Jul-98 Plamen Petkov wrote: >> > >> > >> > Chris Browning wrote: >> > >> >> I can login as root with no problem and perform root >> >> fuinctions, but I can't su as a user in wheel group. >> >> I >> >> have >> >> tried adding new users, deleteing and re-adding. This >> >> always worked before my last re-install (2.2.6) 2 >> >> mos. >> >> ago. >> >> I get a segmentation fault. Any ideas anyone? Thanks. >> >> >> > >> > Make the non-root user belong to the wheel (0) group >> > in >> > the passwd >> > >> > -- >> > Plamen D. Petkov >> >> Passwd and master.passwd both? Tried that, no luck. >> > > Nope. The non-root user has to appear on the wheel line > in /etc/group. > Manpage mentioned that. Already checked. It's there. It gets deleted and added as I rmuser or adduser. How about this: On the console with all other virtual tty's at a login prompt, 'who' gives root on ttyv and brownicm on ttyp? Any help? Do I need to kill this? How? Irrelevant? Thanks. Chris Browning brownicm@netunlimited.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message