Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:25:29 +0200 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: thomas@hindsight.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system? Message-ID: <20061005132529.5b59824f.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> References: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de>
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 thomas@hindsight.de wrote: > 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? # ls -la /sbin/shutdown -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 431524 May 2 16:40 /sbin/shutdown what about group operator ? but i personally would use sudo instead of group wheel etc. -- grtjs, albi
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