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Date:      Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:22:33 -0400
From:      Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com>
To:        Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: unable to do su from user to become super user
Message-ID:  <45d750d20510101322m46e73245we358444c6aafe78d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510101239.36611.surferdamon@adelphia.net>
References:  <200510101239.36611.surferdamon@adelphia.net>

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On 10/10/05, Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hi
> FreeBSD presario.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #7: Sun Oct  9 22:44=
:53
> PDT 2005     root@presario.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  amd64
>    I cannot go from user to super user.

By default on FreeBSD, users must be a member of the group "wheel" in
order to su to root.

Aaron



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