From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 9:44:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcars04f.ca.nortel.com (zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CC037B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com by zcars04f.ca.nortel.com; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:20:55 -0500 Received: by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:20:56 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Matthew Koivisto" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Please help! Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:20:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0A598.A151D280" X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0A598.A151D280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Or you can edit the /etc/group file and make the wheel line look like wheel:*:0:root,user where user is the id that you want to add. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Philip M. Gollucci [mailto:gollucci@wam.umd.edu] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:15 PM To: Clinton Roane Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help! 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 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0A598.A151D280 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: Please help!

Or you can edit the /etc/group file and make the = wheel line look like
wheel:*:0:root,user where user is the id that you = want to add.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip M. Gollucci [mailto:gollucci@wam.umd.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:15 PM
To: Clinton Roane
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Please help!


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??
> = -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-
>
> 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
>


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