Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:18:33 -0500 (EST) From: Michael.Alwan.alwan@rma.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: group and user confusion Message-ID: <XFMail.970304224031.Michael Alwan alwan@rma.edu>
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---------------------------------- E-Mail: Michael Alwan alwan@rma.edu Date: 03/04/97 Time: 22:18:33 This message was sent by XF-Mail ---------------------------------- To all: I'm getting really confused about groups and users. I've been logging in as roo t, setting up xwindows, etc. Now I see that my mail, news, and browser cache have filled up the root director y, and I understand there are other problems that will arise too doing everything as root. This is a single-user ma chine, so security is not an issue. So I created another user in the group wheel, which would presumably give me acc ess to all the configuration files but create caches in /usr/home/"username". However this new user, which id says belongs to wheel, cannot su to root. In addition, I cannot start user ppp while logged in as anything but root. Also, though I think I understand why, I can't start xwindows with xdm except as root. (I need to figure out why startx can't find the symbolic link X to the xserver--the path se ems to be correct). How do I create a usr that can su to root? Should I just bite the bullet and re install everything? Michael
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