From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 28 22:26:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA04104 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:26:53 -0800 Received: from IndyNet.indy.net (root@indynet.indy.net [199.3.65.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA04098 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:26:52 -0800 Received: from indynet.indy.net (indy2.indy.net) by IndyNet.indy.net with SMTP id AA07747 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:33:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:33:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199501290333.AA07747@IndyNet.indy.net> X-Sender: jerryk@indynet.indy.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) Subject: a few new-user questions Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As a FreeBSD rookie, I've got a few questions: 1) I created an account for myself at the end of the install. It asked for a group and I gave it the name of a new group. If I log in under that account ('jerry'), I can't 'su'. It says that I don't belong to a group than can 'su'. I edited /etc/passwd and changed the group for 'jerry' to wheel (which is 0). This didn't change a thing. How can I get modify my account so I can 'su'? I am currently having to login as root to do any real work on the system. 2) How can I add or remove users and groups? I tried the 'adduser' command but there isn't an executable under that name (at least not in the path). Is it safe to just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group? 3) Is there a good Korn shell out there for FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. ------- Jerry Kelley jerryk@indy.net "Life is simply a quest to be somewhere else."