From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 13:24:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13113 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:24:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (207-172-34-163.s36.as11.rkv.erols.com [207.172.34.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13027 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00770; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:24:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:24:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: Christopher J Ceska cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding new user.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Christopher J Ceska wrote: >I am new to FreeBSD so call me crazy..... > >I am trying to add a user that can SU to root like on a linux or solaris >machine. > >I understand the user has to be in the wheel group but what else am I >doing wrong. It always tells me I am not in a group that can su to root. > >I am using DES. What do I have to do? (Besides buy a book) I am just >evaluating this OS and I can't even make a user.... haha You must but the persons login on the wheel line in /etc/group for instance mine reads: wheel:*:0:root,crb make sure you use a comma seperator and no spaces. I believe the default group from /etc/passwd is ignored. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message