From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 4:43:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7E5150DA for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 04:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10eH5c-000KM7-00; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:40:48 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:40:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logging on as root (was: getting warning on start-up/can't find files) Message-ID: <19990503124048.A78218@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > How do I log on as root if I'm already logged on?? The only way I seem to > be able to do that is if I hit the "PrintScrn/SysRq" key. Is that the > proper way, or is there a command in UNIX?? is `su' what you want? You must add yourself to the `wheel' group to use this command to become root. (Just add your username to the end of the `wheel' line in /etc/group.) Also, you can't log in as root across a network by default, you *must* log in as a normal user and then use `su' to become root. You can also switch terminals using ALT-Fn, where n=1 for ttyv0, upto however many vtys you have configured. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message