From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 10:47:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2538D15741 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27777 invoked from network); 6 Oct 1999 17:46:45 -0000 Received: from userbq85.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.146.179) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 1999 17:46:45 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA01344; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:46:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:46:35 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Douglas Flock , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SU command Message-ID: <19991006184635.D373@marder-1> References: <37FA827C.56699E7A@mccue.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:04:53PM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Douglas Flock wrote: > > >Folks, > > > >I am getting an error using the SU command: > > > > Oct 2 06:08:38 myname SU: BAD SU > >dougf to root on /dev/ttyE0 > > > >I have user as member of group Wheel, as required. > > > >What am I missing? Is something corrupted? > > Da you have the correct user in group wheel? Do you have the right syntax > in /etc/groups? > > You said group Wheel. Did you mean group wheel? > You get that error when you get the password wrong. > IIRC, if you have group wheel problem su will say something like "not a > member of group wheel" > > Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells > Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither > | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message