From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 15: 8:35 2002 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 92BD837B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6E443E65 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA77705; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:08:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:08:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Thomas Connolly Cc: "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" Subject: Re: Wheel ? In-Reply-To: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A2128@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Thomas Connolly wrote: > When I try to use the 'su' command I get a message stating that I am > not in the wheel to become a super user. Can anyone tell me how to > put myself in that wheel? Edit the file /etc/group (maybe make a copy first). Find the line that starts with 'wheel' and append your user name to that line, e.g. wheel:*:0:root,joeblow,myusername Next time you log in, you should be able to su root. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message