From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 5:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D9837B8CA for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhumm@ispchannel.com) Received: from ispchannel.com ([208.170.159.57]) by smtp1a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000521125832.FGUR23460.smtp1a@ispchannel.com> for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:58:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3927DD23.653FABD0@ispchannel.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 07:57:07 -0500 From: "Mark A. Hummel" Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annelise [Superuser Help] thnx References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise, Thank you for the insight. I had already figured out that the password alone wasn't enough, but editing the /etc/group file will definitly come in handy. Thanks again. Feel free to take on many other newbie questions from me until I get my system up and running. Mark Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2000, Mark A. Hummel wrote: > > > I just installed BSD 4.0 from CD. I've added myself as a normal user. > > How do I make another login for myself as the superuser? > > > > Mark > > > The superuser account already exists. It's called root. You can > log in as root at the console (not remotely, that is). > > During the install you were asked to give root a password. You'll > need this password. > > If you want to use the su command to change from an ordinary user > to root, that user needs to be in the group wheel. You can add a > user to that group by editing /etc/group and at the end of the > line that begin with wheel, add a comma and the username (no spaces). > > Then you type su and you'll be asked for root's password. > > Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message