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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Need Help
To: witsend@cwv.net (Justin Di Stefano)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:20:49 -0700 (MST)
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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
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