From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 01:48:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA04791 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ax433.mclink.it (ax433.mclink.it [192.106.166.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA04781 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp-241.mclink.it by ax433.mclink.it id aa23328; 18 Aug 96 10:48 CEST Message-ID: <3216D8DA.41C67EA6@mclink.it> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 10:48:26 +0200 From: Marco Masotti X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org CC: blair@cyber-naut.com Subject: Re:Locked out of my system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Justin J. Ashworth wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > > > > > >I can not obtain root privilegdes on my own machine. > > > > Is the account you're trying to su from a member of the wheel group? > Yes it is. Check that your group ownership to wheel is enforced using a proper entry in the passwd database (vipw, I mean), and not merely in the /etc/group file. The su command looks like not considering entries in the /etc/group, as far as when validating wheel group at least. That seems not clearly documented in the su(1) man page. Regards, Marco.