From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 15:09:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25542 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:09:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25534 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29254; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:06:35 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:06:34 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "M. Poulin" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User in group wheel can't su to root In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990114152450.0091d890@spectre.honk.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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