From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 17:51:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE94106564A for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:7:d77::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A2F8FC15 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maximum3.maximumdata.biz (akbeech-2-pt.tunnel.tserv14.sea1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:a:2e9::2]) by bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F76C3B07; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:43:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: Fbsd8 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:51:10 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-BETA2; KDE/4.6.5; i386; ; ) References: <4E6640F0.5060902@a1poweruser.com> <201109061547.28019.beech@freebsd.org> <4E66B8A7.2010401@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4E66B8A7.2010401@a1poweruser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109070951.10456.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wheel group & mkdir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:51:13 -0000 On Tuesday 06 September 2011 16:19:51 Fbsd8 wrote: > Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 September 2011 15:13:48 Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: > >>>> I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries > >>>> to issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. > >>>> > >>>> How do I fix this? > >>> > >>> Make the directory that contains where your user is trying to create a > >>> new subdirectory writable by group wheel. Either that, or teach your > >>> user to use su(1) or sudo(1) so they can mkdir as root. (Adding users > >>> to group wheel so they are permitted to run su(1) is a BSD-ism, and is > >>> the usual reason for adding anyone to wheel.) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Matthew > >> > >> Matthew > >> > >> Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group. I > >> > >> su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get > >> returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command > >> embedded still returns Permission Denied message. I have read the su man > >> page to no joy. Could you please explain the sequence of events to get > >> su to work. > > > > user# su > > Pass: root password > > root# > > > > Beech > > Thank you Beech. > I was entering the password of the user. > When I entered root's password the script containing mkdir worked. > > One remaining question. Is there any time limit on having root access? > I mean will root access remain until the user exits? Yes, the shell will remain root until you either logout (it will go back to user) or close the shell. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------