From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 10:42:29 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 1158816A4D0 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.evilcoder.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C592F43D39 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Message-ID: <405C9089.3060609@elvandar.org> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:42:17 +0100 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <405C8161.401@sympatico.ca> <20040320182850.GB59236@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040320182850.GB59236@users.munk.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: for evilcoder.org Subject: Re: 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 18:42:29 -0000 Jez Hancock wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote: > >>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? > > > Try resetting the root password perhaps? See here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW > Don't even think about that yet.. Read the reply from Matthew Seaman and mine first, if you can't become root after that, you might start considering it... -- -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene