Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:29:56 -0400 From: "JK" <jdkullmann@aliencamel.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>,Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Users unable to SU Message-ID: <web-20517301@aliencamel.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107212429.GA34658@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20060107160357.296E.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060107212429.GA34658@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:24:29 +1300 Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> I seem to have developed a problem on my system. I can add new users >> either via the adduser script or using 'sysinstall'. The problem is >>that >> none of them can become root. They are all in the 'wheel' group, so >>it >> should be working. I am the only user that can access the root. They >>can >> use 'sudo' but that doesn't fix the problem. > > The users need to be listed in /etc/group as belonging to `wheel'. >The > login group-id isn't consulted by su(1). And, rather than just have then su and then run tons of commands you really should list them in sudoers so they ( and you ) can do ''sudo command ..." . You might find that that is safer than just su'ing and staying in a shell as root.
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