From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 23:09:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17940 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (acs@css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA17934 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) From: andrew@ugh.net.au Received: from localhost (acs@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA25935 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 18:09:11 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au: acs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 18:09:11 +1100 (EST) Reply-To: andrew@ugh.net.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Super User Message-ID: X-Meaning-of-Life: none X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > 2) I have trouble logging on as super-user using any of the normal user > accounts I created during setup. I get an error of something like "Not in > the correct class to su root". Please help me. Also, I can't press Log in as root then edit /etc/group. Add the users who should be able to su to the wheel group. The line shoudlr ead something like: wheel:*:0:root,user1,user2 > backspace and erase any mistakes I type when I log on as a normal user, > because it prints ^ and a character when I do so. When I log on as root, > this doesn't happen. Type stty erase > appreciate any help you guys can give me. I know my questions sound like > they come from an imbecil, but I am taking a brave new step in a new > frontier. Thank you very much for having a tech support line. Nah...we have all asked supid questions from time to time...I do it every day :-) Andrew