From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 11:51:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D62037B404 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1MJohw56644; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:50:43 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:50:43 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU group Message-ID: <20020223085043.A56258@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from gilbert@mail.gloviz.co.za on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:48:33PM +0200 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, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:48:33PM +0200, Gilbert wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > > > I am creating a user ( which is for myself) and I want it to have SU > access, when I created the user I did put it in the group “wheel” but I > still do not have SU access. The user needs to have an entry in wheel group in /etc/wheel. su(1) doesn't examine /etc/passwd's group entry at all. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message