From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 8: 0:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8813537BBD1 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:00:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hbenedict_fbsd@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO radiance) (165.21.86.24) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2000 08:00:35 -0800 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <200004012302230310.00A0EEDC@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> References: X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.00.14 (3) Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 23:02:23 +0700 From: "Benedict H" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: superuser 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 I have already add the user into the wheel group, but still the adduser= command can not be run and it comes with message "you're not root !" Any more advise for me ? *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 04/00 at 9:37 AM De la Cruz Lugo Eric wrote: >Benedict: > >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: > >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: > > >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= >> >creating a non-root user >> >that can have privilege of superuser (specifically to run adduser) >> >> You did add them to the wheel group, right? >> >> >> >> Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net >> Systems/Network Administrator >> FreeBSD - the power to serve >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >HOPE THIS HELPS! > >Eric De La Cruz Lugo. > >Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, The Maya Land! > *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message