Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:49:32 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net>, "Joseph Norris" <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question about adduser and root -- correction Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000213124930.0068a0cc@idx.com.au>
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When you adduser. It will prompt you for the group you want. Make sure the group you want is "wheel". Then you should be able to su At 13:56 11/02/00 -0800, Steve Leibel wrote: >At 1:30 PM -0800 2/11/00, Joseph Norris wrote: >>Hello group, >> >>I have added a new user and I wanted that user to be able to use su. When I >>log on as the user and try to do su, I get an error that the user is not >>part of the group. Did do something wrong the adduser? How can I fix this? > > > >wheel:*:0:root,stevel > >where "stevel" is the user to be allowed to su. > >====== sorry what I meant to say was that this line goes in > >/etc/group. > >Steve L > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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