Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:57:13 -0500 From: "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User in group wheel can't su to root Message-ID: <36A00E19.F2A64275@honk.org> References: <XFMail.990114210951.brownicm@prokyon.com>
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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
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