From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 7:24:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (lsmls01.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA1B37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home (we-66-74-164-119.we.mediaone.net [66.74.164.119]) by lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8LEOgj17979; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000501c142a8$962cc560$0100a8c0@home> From: "PetBuilder" To: "Christoph Sold" Cc: References: <001e01c142a4$5b099930$0100a8c0@home> <3BAB4A4E.8060607@i-clue.de> Subject: Re: Telnet & Root access Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:20:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just to be sure I have this and don't make a mistake, I go to the /etc/group/ area and edit "wheel" I add the UID to this file? What should the line look like? Thanks Again, Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Sold" To: "PetBuilder" Cc: "Stephen Hurd" ; Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:10 AM Subject: Re: Telnet & Root access > PetBuilder wrote: > > >2 questions if I might, How do I add a user to the "root" group after the > >install? > > > There is no root group, itt's called "wheel". > Just add the UID to /etc/group in the "wheel" line. > > > > >how do I add SSH after the install? > > > You don't. It's allready in the base system, waiting for you in the > background. > > > > >I am a very newbie with FreeBSD and I have not gotten that far in the book > >yet. > > > Time to read on ;-) > > HTH > -Christoph Sold > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message