Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:17:01 +0100 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dan@ferrises.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really Dumb Question Message-ID: <200411020217.07961.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4186DA65.9020909@ferrises.com> References: <4186DA65.9020909@ferrises.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am Dienstag, 2. November 2004 01:52 schrieb Dan Ferris: > This is probably a dumb question. > > I need to add a user that can su to root. So.... > > I add the user with adduser, invite the user into the wheel group (GID > 0) then add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group You don't need to maually add the su-permitted user to the group 'wheel' in /etc/group. That's what 'adduser' does for you if you, like you said, invite the user to group wheel. I don't understand the problem but I guess you made an error when (unneccessarily) editing /etc/group. -Mano > > su still fails. What am I missing? It's go to be something really dumb. > > Thanks for any help. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhuATBylq0S4AzzwRAqgXAKCLURRB8WeR6E2zMcviQC6mVFNkWACfV9a8 yPgEa6OliHJCIyGkbh4hLok= =N3xA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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