Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:36:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jerry Bell" <jbell@stelesys.com> To: thomas@hindsight.de Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system? Message-ID: <4249.209.134.164.20.1160066199.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> References: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de>
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You need to be in the wheel group to be able to SU to root, but that won't give you permission to run shutdown. Only root can do that, I believe. > Hi All, > > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel > group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I > have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system "do not have > permission" to effect the command. Went back as root on a later session > and > re-entered my name in /etc/group to the wheel account to no avail, anybody > got an idea as to where I need to look? > > Thanks, > Tommy2
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