From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 9:15:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4246737B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gollucci@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15380; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:15:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA18909; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:15:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gollucci@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18904; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:15:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: gollucci owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:15:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" To: Clinton Roane Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when you are root, change your personal user's group to 'wheel' or 0 in the password database ! ***************************************************************************** Philip M. Gollucci (p6m7g8) Web-site : http://www.p6m7g8.com E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu Philip@p6m7g8.com Phone : 301.249.6261 (Home) 301.314.3118 (College) Major : Computer Science Minor : Classical & Jazz Performance Current Job : Science, Discovery, & the Universe Webmaster URL: http://www.sdu.umd.edu Resume : http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gollucci/resume.html ***************************************************************************** On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, 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?? > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > How do I set up are allow individual users of my system to set up there own > X Window enviornment. For instance, I like windowmanger, someone else wants > to use KDE, and another wants Gnome. How do I set this up? The default > choice of xfree sets up everyone's X Window the same. > > Any help and/or direction to help would be much appreciated. Thanks > > Clinton Roane > > > 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