Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:29:43 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Akenner <SlackWareWolf@comcast.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Edit user groups Message-ID: <20090120222942.GB26526@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <49762F6C.8040404@comcast.net> References: <49762F6C.8040404@comcast.net>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up.
> I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made
> some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.
>
> Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was that FreeBSD by default
> doesn't allow just anyone to use su.
Good advice given so far (pw is a good tool, direct editing works) but
I'd also suggest you consider installing and using sudo; I always
install it on all of my systems and use it probably 10-20 times as
often as su.
-- Clifton
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