Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:15:31 +0200 From: "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> Subject: Re: KDE - how to? Message-ID: <019101c6072c$1ac39aa0$0a0aa8c0@endor.swagman.org> References: <DD1951B2B337D6EB56BFAF52@[192.168.10.249]><43A9A240.9070709@wcborstel.nl> <BB5B82E9EEB424A7EED8017A@[192.168.10.249]><200512221719.53755.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <AECC2F6A2B4C5AD042BCF2C1@[192.168.10.249]>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sasa Stupar" <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> To: "RW" <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:32 PM Subject: Re: KDE - how to? > > > --On 22. december 2005 17:19 +0000 RW > <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > >> Are you in the wheel group? >> _______________________________________________ > > No, I am not in wheel group. I thought I could su if I am not in the > wheel group (well, at least I can do it on linux) but I am learning > FreeBSD slowly. You _must_ be in the wheel group to be able to su in any case. Linux people see whole wheel group and root as a bad thing for anarchistic society, BSD folks like the additional layer of security - One has to crack wheel group users password or account in order to get root in a machine using su. > BUt why it won't let me log in as root? As I have read if the > following line has secure written then root logins are allowed: > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/kdm" xterm on secure > or have I missaunderstood this? Secure means that root can login from these terminals directly (insecure terminals enforce the login as regular user then su:ing). -Reko
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