From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 11 07:35:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA21868 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.warp.co.uk (root@mail.warp.co.uk [194.207.68.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA21851 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from temp1.warp.co.uk (temp1.warp.co.uk [194.207.68.11]) by mail.warp.co.uk with SMTP id PAA01050; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:32:41 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970411153053.006abac4@mail.warp.co.uk> X-Sender: tony@mail.warp.co.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:30:53 +0100 To: "Larry S. Marso" , Anthony Barlow From: Anthony Barlow Subject: Re: Problems su-ing to root... Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970411092141.57201@panix.com> References: <3.0.1.32.19970410085617.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk> <3.0.1.32.19970410085617.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:21 11-04-97 -0400, Larry S. Marso wrote: >Are you certain the solution is not as simple as adding the user in >question manually to the /etc/group file, in addition to making the change >as root via chpass? No wheel is group 0 on FreeBSD where as it's 10 on our Lunix boxes and 0 is root. The FreeBSD machines where some how getting confused, causing permission problems and other hidden problems. >On Thu, Apr 10, 1997 at 08:56:17AM +0100, Anthony Barlow wrote: >> We've noticed this as well with NIS if your using it. Make sure wheel is >> the same on all the servers, on Linux which is still our main servers group >> 0 is root, whereas in FreeBSD group 0 is wheel. As our NIS servers are on >> Linux, this also created the can't cd to root, incorrect group. >> >> We did place +:*: at the end of our /etc/group file, but during the night >> some cron job placed it at the beginning of the file. >> >> At 08:47 09-04-97 +1000, Andrew Perry wrote: >> >Did you check in /etc/group to make sure you're in the wheel group? >> > >> >On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote: >> >> From: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co >> >> >> >> I am trying to su to root under FreeBSD under 2.2 Release and I receive a >> >> message that I am not in the correct group. I am in wheel, am I doing >> >> something wrong or did I find a bug? >> >> >> >> ( I used the old adduser script to add my account and left the root >> >> account without password.) >> >> Regards, >> Anthony >> >> > >