From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 05:35:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA27113 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA27105 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:35:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA21163; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:37:21 -0500 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199603281337.IAA21163@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Need Help To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:37:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: witsend@cwv.net, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603280120.SAA02388@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 27, 96 06:20:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. A better solution than this is a program called sudo... it allows you to run a command as root from your login.. it is highly configurable. If password security is not that much of a concern... you might also look at runas .. it does more of less the same thig but you won't need to enter a password to run a command. - branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson