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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Marcin Pasek <marcin@v-m.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Marcin Pasek wrote:

> I have Free BSD PC based BOX.
> I would like to be able to log in to my box and be able to have root
> access and privlages..
> 
> Marcin

Log in as an ordinary user; make sure the ordinary user is in the group
wheel in /etc/group; and use the su command to become root (give root a
password).  

Annelise