From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 01:17:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E3116A4CF for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 776EE43D53 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:17:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 18850 invoked by uid 65534); 2 Nov 2004 01:17:14 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) (62.245.232.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 02 Nov 2004 02:17:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dan@ferrises.com Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:17:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <4186DA65.9020909@ferrises.com> In-Reply-To: <4186DA65.9020909@ferrises.com> X-OS: FreeBSD X-Birthday: 10/06/72 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Tel: +49 89 18947781 X-CelPhone: +49 173 9967781 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2375139.6cmSvv9hHx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411020217.07961.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really Dumb Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 01:17:16 -0000 --nextPart2375139.6cmSvv9hHx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Dienstag, 2. November 2004 01:52 schrieb Dan Ferris: > This is probably a dumb question. > > I need to add a user that can su to root. So.... > > I add the user with adduser, invite the user into the wheel group (GID > 0) then add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group You don't need to maually add the su-permitted user to the group 'wheel'=20 in /etc/group. That's what 'adduser' does for you if you, like you said, invite the user t= o=20 group wheel. I don't understand the problem but I guess you made an error when=20 (unneccessarily) editing /etc/group. =2DMano > > su still fails. What am I missing? It's go to be something really dumb. > > Thanks for any help. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart2375139.6cmSvv9hHx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhuATBylq0S4AzzwRAqgXAKCLURRB8WeR6E2zMcviQC6mVFNkWACfV9a8 yPgEa6OliHJCIyGkbh4hLok= =N3xA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2375139.6cmSvv9hHx--