From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 4:49:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5500937B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 04:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11552; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:28:08 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f25CcWT05145; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:38:32 +0300 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:38:32 +0300 From: Igor Robul To: Clinton Roane Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help! Message-ID: <20010305153832.A5074@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: Clinton Roane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from clinton.roane@worldnet.att.net on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:50:18AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:50:18AM -0800, Clinton Roane wrote: > Ok, I've set up FreeBSD, I am root but I don't want to be in the system as > root all the time. When I log into my regular account and try to su it says > "your are not a member of the right group to use su". HOW do I become su > and how do I add groups?? Hello, as always, you need read manual page. In this case do at shell prompt "man su". Near then end of page you'll find "Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') ...." -- Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message