From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 13:53:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.dnai.com (oberon.dnai.com [207.181.194.97]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6570F3D19 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.100.2] (dnai-216-15-121-219.cust.dnai.com [216.15.121.219]) by oberon.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA71663; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:53:08 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: stevel@apollo.coastside.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:55:13 -0800 To: "Joseph Norris" , "freebsd-questions" From: Steve Leibel Subject: Re: question about adduser and root Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:30 PM -0800 2/11/00, 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? I don't know if this is the "official" way to do it, but what I did is add my userid to the wheel group. In /etc/wheel I have: wheel:*:0:root,stevel where "stevel" is the user to be allowed to su. Steve L To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message