Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:51:10 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wheel group & mkdir Message-ID: <201109070951.10456.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E66B8A7.2010401@a1poweruser.com> References: <4E6640F0.5060902@a1poweruser.com> <201109061547.28019.beech@freebsd.org> <4E66B8A7.2010401@a1poweruser.com>
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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