Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:04:22 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: RGireyev@BellInd.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Post installation stuff Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970304160321.8349A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=BellInd%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970304233204Z-1472@cdcexchange.bellind.com>
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 RGireyev@BellInd.com wrote: > [..] > > >> 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. > > Hi Ben! > Thanks for replying again. If you remember though my original > user was part of the group wheel and I still could not su. I cannot > wait to get home and look at the code, maybe I'll see something there. Right, but wheel is still the group that can su. Did you make sure the permissions were right? What happened when you tried to su? Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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