Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:37:20 -0500 (EST) From: Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: witsend@cwv.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need Help Message-ID: <199603281337.IAA21163@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199603280120.SAA02388@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 27, 96 06:20:49 pm
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> > > I have recently purchase a copy of Free BSD > > 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I installed it, and > > then proceeded to try to install WP for SCO UNIX on > > it. After I had tarred the first disk to my hard > > drive, and tried to run the installation program, > > if informed me that I was not a super-user. > > You must be logged in as root (that is what this means). > > > I tried everything to become a super-user. It will > > not let me su from any account other than root, > > claiming that I am not in the proper user group to > > su. > > You must add any users you wish to allow to become root > using the su command to the group "wheel" in /etc/group. A better solution than this is a program called sudo... it allows you to run a command as root from your login.. it is highly configurable. If password security is not that much of a concern... you might also look at runas .. it does more of less the same thig but you won't need to enter a password to run a command. - branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson
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