Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:53:36 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cant su to root Message-ID: <486A0CB0.5090302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200807012043.21155.shinjii@maydias.com> References: <200807012043.21155.shinjii@maydias.com>
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Warren Liddell wrote: > When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. > > $ su > su: Sorry > > i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have > done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. > > Any thoughts? > > Maybe you added your account to the operators group, but removed it from the wheel group? Try: id <username> and see if you have wheel in your groups. as root you can use pw usermod to restore this, e.g. pw usermod <username> -g <primarygroup> -G wheel,operator,... (there are other ways to do this as well.)
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