From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 20:42:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED8837BD5D for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAB16 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:42:09 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 346; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:45:02 +1000 Message-ID: <396E8C1E.5E608BBD@S1.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:42:22 +1000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cannot use su References: <396E8D8C.B893D35D@miltonstreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Sam, > > My normal account can not su to get superuser access. I am assuming > there is a file somewhere I need to edit. Which file is it? > from the man-page... "Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to ``root''. If group 0 is missing or empty, any user can su to ``root''." hth, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message