From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 21:24:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7E416A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:24:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2720243D49 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:24:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C91825641C; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:24:29 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:24:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Gerard Seibert Message-ID: <20060107212429.GA34658@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20060107160357.296E.GERARD@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060107160357.296E.GERARD@seibercom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Users unable to SU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:24:32 -0000 On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I seem to have developed a problem on my system. I can add new users > either via the adduser script or using 'sysinstall'. The problem is that > none of them can become root. They are all in the 'wheel' group, so it > should be working. I am the only user that can access the root. They can > use 'sudo' but that doesn't fix the problem. The users need to be listed in /etc/group as belonging to `wheel'. The login group-id isn't consulted by su(1). -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door" - W.E. Channing