Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:43:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Deling Ren <lg+freebsd@home.homeunix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't su, already in wheel group. Message-ID: <20050119044320.GA7605@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050118113615.D85254@sun.home.homeunix.org> References: <20050118113615.D85254@sun.home.homeunix.org>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:42:49AM -0800, Deling Ren wrote:
> Hi al, I am trying to install an embedded freebsd 5.3 onto a single board
> computer. Since I am trying to fit everything into a 128M CF, I can't do a
> normal installation. Instead, I copied over from a PC. It seems to be
> running well, except I can't su. The user is in wheel group:
>
> %pw user show admin
> admin:*:1500:0::0:0:User &:/home/admin:/bin/tcsh
> %id admin
> uid=1500(admin) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
You need to add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group. su doesn't
look at the login group.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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