From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 03:03:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA13750 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 03:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA13744 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 03:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12452; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:58:23 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA05406; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:04:06 GMT Message-ID: <19980121110403.55489@iii.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:04:03 +0000 To: george Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su command problem References: <199801210617-35180@icesys.po.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <199801210617-35180@icesys.po.my>; from george on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:35:51AM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 10:35:51AM +0000, george wrote: > I bought and installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 recently. I am facing with the > following problem: I could logon to the system as root howerver when I logon > as normal user and try to su to root it give a error message: > > "You are not in the correct group to su..." % man su ... Only users listed in group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to ``root'', un- less this group is empty. ... Add your self to the 'wheel' group by editing /etc/group. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- . . . and relax