Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:09:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: "M. Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User in group wheel can't su to root Message-ID: <XFMail.990114210951.brownicm@prokyon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.990115120536.26755D-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Date: 14-Jan-99 Time: 21:08:04 "if you believe in Nothing... honey, It believes in you." ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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