From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 12:22:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prima.connect1.ca (prima.connect1.ca [216.138.233.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F8A37B400 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 12:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from connect1.ca (localhost.connect1.ca [127.0.0.1]) by prima.connect1.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id F29BD64C01; Sat, 4 May 2002 15:22:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 216.254.135.133 (SquirrelMail authenticated user franka) by www.connect1.ca with HTTP; Sat, 4 May 2002 15:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3425.216.254.135.133.1020540158.squirrel@www.connect1.ca> Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: User Configuration help. From: "BSD Questions" To: In-Reply-To: <001d01c1f37c$5fcae030$1700a8c0@Vegas> References: <001d01c1f37c$5fcae030$1700a8c0@Vegas> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: Reply-To: bsdquestions@connect1.ca X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 What you want to do is add the mark user to the wheel group. To do this you have to login as root, and edit the /etc/group file. the top line should look something like this. wheel:*:0:root,mark When you save it, you will be able to su to root. A good way to check a users group priviledges is to use the id command. so at the prompt, you type bash#: id mark uid=2030(mark) gid=2030(mark) groups=2030(mark), 0(wheel) you should see some output like this, with the wheel group showing up. Hope this helps Frank Auciello > Hiya, > > I just installed freeBSD 4.5 over ftp, after downloading the 2 floppies > and running them on a spare machine. I`am very impressed on how easy it > was :-). I have machine up and running now but have a few things wrong > that I don`t understand. > > 1) A created a "mark" user, so that I`m not logged in as root all the > time. The machine is on an isolated lan so I`m not to worried about > security, But I`d prefer not to be able to login over ssh straight into > root. So I log in as mark and try to su up to root and I get this. > > "su: you are not in the correct group (wheel) to su root." > > How do I fix this? > > > 2) /stand/sysinstall all of a sudden starting display the characters > all screwy. I didn`t play with the fonts ( although I have now in an > attempt to fix it ) the up and down arrow keys now exit the menus > rather than more up and down the selection. It`s a bit odd.. I have to > use the + and - keys on the numeric keypad to move up and down. What > have I screwed here? > > Thanks... > > > Mark Ackroyd > mark@ackroyd.net > > > > > 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