From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 11: 5:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587DF37B907 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.244]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA59595; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:05:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000218110311.02410810@mail.cpl.net> X-Sender: megadeth@mail.cpl.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:03:52 -0800 To: "david e. banning" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: can't su - root In-Reply-To: <200002181353.NAA08565@mweb.worldy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:53 PM 2/18/00 +0000, david e. banning wrote: >when I try to su - >I get an error - you are not in correct group to su root. >do I just modify /etc/group ? >I tried adding my user name eg; >sys:*:3:root, tracker > >but I am not sure what group to modify - or whether I comma? Add yourself to the wheel group. Comma separated, no spaces. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message