From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 6:11:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7288C11813 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA06863; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:10:14 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA04889; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:07:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA25922; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:47:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06310; Mon, 22 Feb 99 14:56:25 +0100 Message-Id: <36D16334.92C81ED@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:01:24 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Langa Kentane Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: su permissions (newbie) References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030442@za12nt02.mweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Add yourself to the wheel group (see in /etc/group - man group(5)) TfH Langa Kentane wrote: > > Everytime I try to su to root it tells me that I don't have the permission > to do so. > > How do I go about giving myself permission to su to root? > > Thank you in advance > > ________________________________________________________________ > Langa F. Kentane (CNA, MCP) | Unix, DOS & Windows > Technical Suppot | The good, the bad & the ugly > M-Web Connect PTY/LTD | mailto:evablunted@earthling.net > Tel: +27 82 960 4963 | > http://members.xoom.com/evablunted > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy Operating > Systems" > - Linus Torvalds > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > 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