From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 11:25:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2EE2C16A416 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:25:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3C343D46 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:25:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:22518 helo=http.aseed.net) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GVRM2-000BPv-VR; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:25:31 +0000 Received: from amandla (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D909A564FE; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:25:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:25:29 +0200 From: albi To: thomas@hindsight.de Message-Id: <20061005132529.5b59824f.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> References: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:25:36 -0000 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