From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 8:38:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BDC37B926 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28114; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:38:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:38:43 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Benedict H Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: superuser In-Reply-To: <200004012302230310.00A0EEDC@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Benedict H wrote: > 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 ? > Yes. Ignore everyone's well-meant advice and install sudo. Since that person needs only adduser access, giving him full root privileges is totally unnecessary. This scenario is what sudo was made for. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message