From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 09:40:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 207B316A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A5A43D39 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevcoles@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([64.228.68.120]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040320174002.UDFD7291.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:40:02 -0500 Message-ID: <405C8161.401@sympatico.ca> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:37:37 -0500 From: Kevin Coles User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Su to Root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:40:07 -0000 Hello everyone, I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem to su to root while using my normal account. All I get is a message saying "Sorry." Can anyone help? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin Coles