Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, plamendp@techno-link.com Subject: Re: can't su Message-ID: <XFMail.980717105322.brownicm@netunlimited.net> In-Reply-To: <199807171437.JAA18215@horton.iaces.com>
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On 17-Jul-98 Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Chris Browning said: >> >> On 17-Jul-98 Plamen Petkov wrote: >> > >> > >> > Chris Browning wrote: >> > >> >> I can login as root with no problem and perform root >> >> fuinctions, but I can't su as a user in wheel group. >> >> I >> >> have >> >> tried adding new users, deleteing and re-adding. This >> >> always worked before my last re-install (2.2.6) 2 >> >> mos. >> >> ago. >> >> I get a segmentation fault. Any ideas anyone? Thanks. >> >> >> > >> > Make the non-root user belong to the wheel (0) group >> > in >> > the passwd >> > >> > -- >> > Plamen D. Petkov >> >> Passwd and master.passwd both? Tried that, no luck. >> > > Nope. The non-root user has to appear on the wheel line > in /etc/group. > Manpage mentioned that. Already checked. It's there. It gets deleted and added as I rmuser or adduser. How about this: On the console with all other virtual tty's at a login prompt, 'who' gives root on ttyv and brownicm on ttyp? Any help? Do I need to kill this? How? Irrelevant? Thanks. Chris Browning brownicm@netunlimited.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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