Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:20:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: witsend@cwv.net (Justin Di Stefano) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Help Message-ID: <199603280120.SAA02388@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <315973D9.61FE@cwv.net> from "Justin Di Stefano" at Mar 27, 96 04:59:05 pm
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> I have recently purchase a copy of Free BSD > 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I installed it, and > then proceeded to try to install WP for SCO UNIX on > it. After I had tarred the first disk to my hard > drive, and tried to run the installation program, > if informed me that I was not a super-user. You must be logged in as root (that is what this means). > I tried everything to become a super-user. It will > not let me su from any account other than root, > claiming that I am not in the proper user group to > su. You must add any users you wish to allow to become root using the su command to the group "wheel" in /etc/group. > Even when I log in under root, I am still not > recognized as a super-user. I don not know if this has been corrected in -current. The common lore is that your machine name must be exactly 8 characters long for the install to work. This has to do the system name information returned to the install program. > When I tried to run kdb_edit to fix this problem, it says > the command is not found. I don't understand why the command kdb_edit would have any effect on you being able to login as root... sorry. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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