From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 10:51:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26992 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26981 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA57538; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:51:05 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA03210; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:51:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971111185418.007cc180@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:54:18 +0000 To: "Fiore, William" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jason Wells Subject: Re: su root - I cant remember the incantation to do this In-Reply-To: <314E26C1801AD1119C3000805FD40926124DD5@usilms05.cai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:57 11/12/97 -0500, you wrote: >Could someone remind me as to which /etc file needs to be modified >so that a non priviledged user can do a su root if he knows the root >password >TIA $bilfjr DOH... I hope that is not your root password! Change it immediately. We did not need to know that to help you with this. To allow a user to 'su root' edit /etc/group. At the end of the line that defines the group 'wheel' add the usernames. wheel:*:0:usernam1,usernam2,yada,yada Later, Jason Wells