From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 09:48:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p11.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22605 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:48:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA00549; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 04:48:00 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 04:48:00 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: caijj@trans.hk.hi.cn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't su root In-Reply-To: <199812081537.XAA16890@trans.hk.hi.cn.> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 caijj@trans.hk.hi.cn wrote: > > I want to make a user su root, so I add it to the "wheel" group. > But it dosn't work. The system prompts:"Your are not in the correct > group to su root". > What does your entry in /etc/group look like for the wheel group? It should look something like this.. wheel:*:0:root,user,user1 Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | web: http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message