From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 13:23:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1out.umbc.edu (mx1out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819D637B424 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from irix1.gl.umbc.edu (gmiddl1@irix1.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.8]) by mx1out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28565; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:23:47 -0400 From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Jeff Kornuta Cc: Subject: Re: su root? In-Reply-To: <20010408041545.A88544@c341449-a.btnrug1.la.home.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 The user that your are logged in as needs to be in the "wheel" group. When you add a user and it asks you what groups you want to invite the user into you must specify wheel. Jason On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Jeff Kornuta wrote: > I am new to freebsd but not to UNIX. How would I su root under a > normal user? Every time I try to su , it says that I am not in the > right group. What do I do? -Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement: The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message