From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 13:27:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7588837B423 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f37LVg123905; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:31:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:31:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Jeff Kornuta Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 You must be in the wheel group to su to root. Add your login name to the /etc/group file, eg : wheel:*:0:root,$YOUR_USER_NAME Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message