From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 18:13:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25512 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:13:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from molly.my.domain (Khan-082.netunlimited.net [208.165.3.83] (may be forged)) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA02974; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:11:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:09:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning To: "M. Poulin" Subject: Re: User in group wheel can't su to root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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