From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 13:44: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444553DC6 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:44:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000211214351.RKEJ23735.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.net>; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:43:51 -0800 Message-ID: <38A482D2.5A90CFEF@home.net> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:44:50 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Norris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: question about adduser and root References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your user needs to be a member of the 'wheel' group. It should be as simple as editing /etc/group and adding the user id to make the change. Joseph Norris wrote: > > Hello group, > > I have added a new user and I wanted that user to be able to use su. When I > log on as the user and try to do su, I get an error that the user is not > part of the group. Did do something wrong the adduser? How can I fix this? > > Thanks. > > #Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there? /Freebsd/Linux/CGI/Mysql) > print @c=map chr $_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8, > -68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90); > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message