From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 6 19:43:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.serve.com (mail.serve.com [207.8.152.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00718 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from numard@smartmedia.com.ar) Received: from smartmedia.com.ar ([203.111.0.219]) by mail.serve.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA30868 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:42:11 -0400 Message-ID: <35A18B3A.F37D96A2@smartmedia.com.ar> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 12:43:06 +1000 From: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" Organization: 0xCode X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Can't su root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! i was able to su into root. now when i do "su root" i get the following beto@smartnet$ su root su: you are not in the correct group to su root. beto@smartnet$ ---- su-2.02# pw usershow beto beto:*:1003:0:root:0:0:Norberto:/home/beto:/usr/local/bin/bash su-2.02# id beto uid=1003(beto) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) 1007(www) su-2.02# pw usershow marcelo marcelo:*:1004:0::0:0:Marcelo Rodriguez:/home/marcelo:/usr/local/bin/bash su-2.02# id marcelo uid=1004(marcelo) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) 1007(www) su-2.02# --- i can su root with user marcelo. but can't with user beto. why this? i don't think i changed anything. TIA! -- Norberto Meijome (a) Numard, (a) Beto | ICQ # 15032073 * Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message