From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 20:31:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4719D1065718 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D061C8FC2C for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 98393 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jan 2009 20:45:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 20 Jan 2009 20:45:20 -0000 Message-ID: <4976348D.4010502@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:31:09 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Akenner References: <49762F6C.8040404@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <49762F6C.8040404@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Edit user groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:26 -0000 Akenner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. > I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made > some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway > heh. > > Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was that FreeBSD by default > doesn't allow just anyone to use su. > > I come from mainly using Linux, where you can log in and then whenever > you need to open a root xterm or even a root shell, you just type the > password and go. I looked up how to do this but most of my results came > back with setting up user accounts, and other things. I did add another > user that was in the wheel group so I could do it, but I'd really like > to be able to add my main user account to the wheel group so I can su > from this one instead of doing su otheruser and then su again to root. > > I found while searching for this something that MIGHT be what I'm > looking for, but after reading it over, it seems I'd have to read > through the whole man page first and then, it could be bad if I mistype > something, or I could even screw up an account, which I can't risk. > > Is there an exact way to take a user account on my system, and add it to > the wheel group? Yes. # ee /etc/group ...and add your username to the list of users after the wheel group. For instance, by default, the entry will appear as such: wheel:*:0:root ...and if my username is steve, you will append the line like this: wheel:*:0:root,steve ...then hit ESC, then ENTER twice. Steve