From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 7:38: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iteso.mx (iteso.mx [148.201.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA57337B9D3 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 07:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eric@iteso.mx) Received: from localhost (eric@localhost) by iteso.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21651; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:37:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from eric@iteso.mx) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:37:46 -0600 (CST) From: De la Cruz Lugo Eric To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Benedict H , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: superuser In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000401092929.00b907b0@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Benedict:=20 =20 What Jeffrey mean is that you need to add the name of the user in the file /etc/group, in that file there is a line like this one: =20 wheel:*:0:root,jose,cacho <--this one, you only need to add th user you daemon:*:1:daemon want to give the speruser privileges. kmem:*:2:root don=B4t forget to use a "," to separate the sys:*:3:root user name ok? :) tty:*:4:root operator:*:5:root,bin mail:*:6: bin:*:7: =20 On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 10:14 PM 4/1/00 +0700, Benedict H wrote: > >currently I use FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on my machine and I have problem in= =20 > >creating a non-root user > >that can have privilege of superuser (specifically to run adduser) >=20 > You did add them to the wheel group, right? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net > Systems/Network Administrator > FreeBSD - the power to serve >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 HOPE THIS HELPS! =20 Eric De La Cruz Lugo. Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, The Maya Land! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message