From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:53:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F3414A2C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14182; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:55:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:55:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing group at install? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026092020.007274e8@slider> 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 The group home is not a standard group in FreeBSD. Greg's book is simply showing an example. You might want to add a group, such as "users" before you add your actual users. When I initially started working with FreeBSD, I made my first user a member of the wheel group. That way I could log in and 'su' to do system operations and then exit back to a normal user. You need to at least make one user a member of wheel so you don't need to log in as root in order to perform system maintenance. Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message