From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 13:59:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA18348 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18343 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05226; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:58:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:58:52 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: RGireyev@Bellind.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Post installation stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 RGireyev@Bellind.com wrote: > Thank you. I read the README file that gave me the FTP site where > I could get the distribution. Now this may seem stupid but I think Korn > shell is so good it's gotta be a part of the distribution. Good isn't the issue. Only sh and csh are part of the distribution. All the extended shells are ports. > Troubles continue. I added another user onto the system ( named > beavis) and assigned him to the group bin, which if I'm not > mistaken is the group of the root. I logged in as beavis and You are mistaken. Root's group is wheel. > STILL was not allowed to su :-( I am running a clean install > of 2.1.7 (not an upgrade) and I add users using /stand/sysinstall . > Am I the only clueless newbie this is happening to? Probably not. Only members of group wheel are allowed to su. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."