From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 12:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29349 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29340 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00796; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:36:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: almazs@wgn.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can't 'su' to root on rel. 2.2.7 In-Reply-To: <35D62ED1.455B@wgn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 almazs@wgn.net wrote: > Hi; > > I just installed FreeBSD rel 2.2.7 and tried to su to root by first > editing /etc/group and adding/replaceng the word 'root' on the first > line with the name of the user to su to root. > > i.e wheel:*:0:admin # admin is network administrator to be able > to # su to root That wasn't such a great idea. You should have listed it after, like: wheel:*:0:root,admin su may have pains if root isn't in wheel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message