From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 15 15:27:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20995 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.abac.com (mail1.abac.com [206.170.126.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20990 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ds9.abac.com ([206.171.121.64]) by mail1.abac.com (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAA237 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:13:55 -0700 Received: (qmail 2967 invoked by uid 501); 15 May 1997 22:13:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:13:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: can't su to root Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I accidentally deleted the original message before I could reply to it. :( In response to the guy who couldn't su to root: You said your group was wheel. Is that set in the passwd file? If so, that's the problem. Your group should be whatever group was created for you when you ran adduser to create your account (should be the same as your user ID). E.g. mine is: data:*:500:500:Bryce Newall,,619-458-2678:/home/data:/bin/tcsh In /etc/group: data:*:500: Now, what you want to do is to add your login *name* to the end of the wheel group line in the group file, i.e., in my case: wheel:*:0:root,data Once you've done that, log out and back in, and you should be able to su to root. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * IRC: Data * Email: data@dal.net * * WWW: http://voyager.abac.com/data * IRC Admin, voyager.dal.net * * --== Try DALnet! Server irc.dal.net, port 7000 ==-- * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * **********************************************************************