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Date:      Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:42:00 +0700
From:      jahan <jahan@pc.jaring.my>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        jahan@jjsoft.com, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SU thing: here it is
Message-ID:  <34845678.543BC9E7@pc.jaring.my>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971202102700.11603F-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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Yes it works, thank you very much.

Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, jahan wrote:
> 
> > OS FreeBSD 2.2.1,
> >
> > why cannot su ?  what am I missing. Group is right.
> >
> > See the output below.
> >
> >
> > $ id
> > uid=1000(jahan) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
> > $ su root
> > su: you are not in the correct group to su root.
> > $
> 
> Are you in the group file. Ie, /etc/group
> 
> Login as root, and do:
> 
> vi /etc/group
> 
> The wheel group will need to look something like:
> 
> wheel:*:0:root,jahan,user,user,user
> 
> where "user" are any other users who want su access.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> d.
> 
> +-------------------------------------------------------+
> | Dean Hollister,           | deanh@iinet.net.au        |
> | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au |
> +-------------------------------------------------------+




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