From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 10: 1:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E409D15253 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07534; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:25:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Group problems In-Reply-To: <99110818305400.00416@machine.beastie.org> 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 Mon, 8 Nov 1999 fredrik.carlen@telia.com wrote: > > Hello! > > I've put myself in the ' wheel ' group by adding my user name to the first line > in /etc/groups: > > wheel:*:0:root,leonis > > Now I can su, but not use reboot or halt... > Does anybody know what the problem is? > The reboot command GID is wheel, and so is halt's... you must execute the programs as root, however if you include yourself in the 'operator' group you'll be able to use shutdown as a normal user. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message