From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 19:59:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387F93F88 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06344; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:00:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Joseph Norris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: question about adduser and root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Joseph Norris wrote: > Hello group, > > I have added a new user and I wanted that user to be able to use su. When I > log on as the user and try to do su, I get an error that the user is not > part of the group. This part of your question was already answered. > Did do something wrong the adduser? How can I fix this? Wrong? No. Incomplete? Yes. For future reference, when adduser asks if you want to invite the user into other groups, type in "wheel" (without the quotes) and you'll be all set. HTH, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message