From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 10 05:05:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA11556 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:05:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA11550 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA07051; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:59:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07556; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:04:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA00741; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:04:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:04:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712101304.IAA00741@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Kevin Hoos" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *CTP SERVER* A little Admin Help In-Reply-To: <1D5B8A1582E@ctpberk.org> References: <17762E232C4@ctpberk.org> <17BCDA626CE@ctpberk.org> <1D5B8A1582E@ctpberk.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kevin Hoos wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have been adding users, and when I went to add my admins, I found > that they cannot su root. I use the adduser command. What do I need > to change to let them su root? Assuming you're seeing the message: su: you are not in the correct group to su root. the answer is, put them in the "wheel" group, in "/etc/group". ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Every solution breeds new problems.