Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:27:03 -0700 From: "shannon" <shannon@magickalhome.com> To: "Dean Hollister" <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, "Oliver Thuns" <oliver.thuns@gmx.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: su root: "su: you are not in the correct group to su root." Message-ID: <01bdc239$5b1b92a0$02c8a8c0@dsk02.curry>
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>On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >> I tried to su root, but I get the error "su: you are not in the correct >> group to su root." >> >> How can I set the correct group for that user? >> >> This is my first FreeBSD installation, I user Debian before, but it >> seems that FreeBSD has a better performance on an 486 with 8MB RAM. > >Edit /etc/group and add yourself to the wheel group. > Why is it than when I execute adduser or if I do it from sysinstall that the wheel group is not updated in /etc/group? I add a user to wheel in the adduser utilities and I still have to mannually add them in the group file. >Regards, > >d. > >+-------------------------------------------------------+ >| Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | >| Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | >+-------------------------------------------------------+ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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