From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 17:30:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garbo.nepean.uws.edu.au (garbo.nepean.uws.edu.au [137.154.156.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC3937B5AF for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n9905381@garbo.nepean.uws.edu.au) Received: from scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au ([137.154.177.110]) by garbo.nepean.uws.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08432; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:30:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <39725271.307B160C@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:25:21 +1000 From: Danny Organization: UWS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) 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 YOu need to be part of the wheel group. Before you can use the su command. Or you can install sudo from www.freebsd.org/ports/ and do a serach on sudo. Sam Carleton wrote: > 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? > > Sam > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message