From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 13:47:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18722 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:47:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from infowest.com (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18534 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from agifford@infowest.com) Received: from infowest.com (liberty.infowest.com [207.49.60.254]) by infowest.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA28338; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:46:20 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3516D80D.C5FAA026@infowest.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:45:50 +0000 From: "Aaron D. Gifford" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Ruban , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote root login References: <3516D41C.9E15AFD4@cybernex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marko Ruban wrote: > > My goal is to log on as root (or equivalent) from a pc on the same > LAN. I have been told that I can use SU command for that purpose. So, > I created a user called "boss" in group "wheel", and when I try to use > the SU command I get: "su: you are not in the correct group to su root." > > Please help. > > Marko > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Be sure that you put user "boss" in group wheel within the /etc/group file. I believe the "su" command ONLY looks at the /etc/group data to see if the user is in group wheel, ignoring any group membership specified in the password database. Aaron out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message