Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 17:56:58 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: witsend@cwv.net (Justin Di Stefano) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Help Message-ID: <199603281659.RAA14199@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <315973D9.61FE@cwv.net>; from "Justin Di Stefano" at Mar 27, 96 4:59 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. 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. BSD has a different su from System V. As Terry has already mentioned, add your user ID to the end of the 'wheel' line in /etc/group. For example, here's the line from freefall.cdrom.com: wheel:*:0:root,davidg,jkh,phk,jlrobin,gpalmer,jfieber,gibbs,jmb,peter,asami,joerg,jehamby > Even when I log in under root, I am still not > recognized as a super-user. Do you mean the system won't let you run as root even after you log in, or do you mean that the WP installation program doesn't think you're root? > When I tried to run > kdb_edit to fix this problem, it says the command > is not found. You may have your paths mixed up. kdb_edit should be in /usr/sbin; if you have come from an SCO background, you probably won't have this directory in your root PATH. Are you running Kerberos? Otherwise you don't need to mess with kdb_edit. If you are running Kerberos, I'd suggest that you stop it and see if that makes things any happier. > I am running a 486 DX-66MHz computer > with a 3.5" floppy, a 5.25" floppy, a Colorado > Jumbo 250 tape drive, a Pinnacle RCD-5040 CD-R, a > Chinon CD-ROM drive, and have 16MB of RAM. I also > have a Sound Blaster AWE32, a Diamond Stealth 64 > DRAM video card, and an adaptec 1535 host adapter > card to run my SCSI devices(CD-R and CD-ROM). If > you could provide me with any help at all I would > be greatly gratified. Let's hope this helps. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.de Schellnhausen 2 Tel: +49-6637-919123 36325 Feldatal Fax: +49-6637-919122 Germany
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