From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 1:43:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin6.bigpond.com (juicer03.bigpond.com [139.134.6.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC1337B424 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyho@bigpond.net.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org ([139.134.4.55]) by mailin6.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GBGTTE00.EOH; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:48:50 +1000 Received: from CPE-203-45-68-28.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.45.68.28]) by mail4.bigpond.com (Claudes-Swaying-MailRouter V2.9c 7/16769226); 08 Apr 2001 18:43:33 From: Danny To: Jeff Kornuta , Jeff Kornuta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su root? Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 19:37:21 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010408041545.A88544@c341449-a.btnrug1.la.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01040819385400.00314@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have to be in the wheel group like so: drwxr-xr-x 9 dannyho wheel However, you can try installing sudo ? On Sun, 08 Apr 2001, Jeff Kornuta wrote: > I am new to freebsd but not to UNIX. How would I su root under a > normal user? Every time I try to su , it says that I am not in the > right group. What do I do? -Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message