From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 05:34:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA02371 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cocoa.ops.neosoft.com (root@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com [206.109.5.227]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA02366 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by cocoa.ops.neosoft.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) id HAA04734; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 07:33:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 07:33:50 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Baker X-Sender: dbaker@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com To: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to 'su' In-Reply-To: <199602090816.QAA24594@marikit.iphil.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The user needs to have their login ID in the group at the top of /etc/group, wheel: mine looks like: wheel:*:0:root,dbaker,smace That way, dbaker and smace can su root. On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote: > Hello! > > How do you su to root? Even if the user's GID is changed to 0 > with vipw, su still says: > > su: you are not in the correct group to su root. > > > -- > miguel a.l. paraz -- map@iphil.net -- http://www.iphil.net/user/map/ > iphil communications, makati city, philippines > Daniel -- Daniel Baker - Daniel@Cuckoo.COM "Huhuhu, thank you, drive through please"