From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 20:04:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spanky (ms02-216.tor.istar.ca [137.186.227.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09626 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from honk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spanky (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02577; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:57:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Message-ID: <36A00E19.F2A64275@honk.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:57:13 -0500 From: "M. Poulin" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Browning CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User in group wheel can't su to root References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you! I had no idea that Kerberos would cause this kind of problem. All is well now. Thanks again! M. Chris Browning wrote: > Did you install Kerberos? If you did or are not sure try "su -K". I just spent > a couple days chasing the same thing around. HTH. > > On 14-Jan-99 Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, M. Poulin wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my 2nd system, and I have set up > >> everything as I did on > >> my other system. However, my user account that I created is unable to su to > >> root. > >> > >> The first thing I checked was to make sure it was in the "wheel" group. It > >> is. > > > > If the user isn't in /etc/group's wheel group, su(1) will not allow > > the user to be root. Doesn't matter what the user's login-gid is. > > > > Jonathan Chen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message