From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 5:53:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF3637B89F for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhumm@ispchannel.com) Received: from ispchannel.com ([208.170.159.57]) by smtp1a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000521125444.FGHB23460.smtp1a@ispchannel.com> for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:54:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3927DC3F.78BC1E41@ispchannel.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 07:53:19 -0500 From: "Mark A. Hummel" Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: To Gustavo [Superuser Help] - 3 References: <3926CF64.B942670@ispchannel.com> <3926D1BC.7FF0226F@tdnet.com.br> <392709AF.A316DBDA@ispchannel.com> <392730B2.5E4970A3@tdnet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A newbie mistake of ignorance! UID must be "root" to login as root. I thought it was just the passwords which where different. I got now, but don't worry, I have a lot more questions. Again, thanks for the quick response and please feel free to select from equally difficult challenges as I get my FBSD system up and running . Mark Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > "Mark A. Hummel" wrote: > > > > Gustavo, > > > > Thanks for getting back to me. When I issue adduser, I get an error message > > saying that only the system administrator can add a user. > > > > Mark > > > > Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > > > > > "Mark A. Hummel" wrote: > > > > > > > > I just installed BSD 4.0 from CD. I've added myself as a normal user. > > > > How do I make another login for myself as the superuser? > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > Create a normal user. Give him uid 0 and gid 0. > > > Take a closer look at root/toor entry in /etc/passwd. > > > > > > -- > > > Your mouse has moved. > > > Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! > > > > > > Reboot now? [ OK] > > Ok! > Let's start from the beginning: You added a user while in the > installation process, right ? > > -- > Your mouse has moved. > Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! > > Reboot now? [ OK] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message