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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!jabba.cybernetics.net!usenet From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD --> Help for a stupid user Date: 24 Jan 1995 21:19:24 GMT Organization: http://hermes.cybernetics.net Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3g3qss$eh0@jabba.cybernetics.net> References: <3g3ij8$l5s@Owl.nstn.ca> Reply-To: james@hermes.cybernetics.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.cybernetics.net In article <3g3ij8$l5s@Owl.nstn.ca>, digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Mike Digdon) writes: ): I create a user using vipw, then create a home directory for him. He can't ): create files in his home directory, so I have to chmod 777 it. I've assigned ): him to group 0-- "wheel", yet he can't su root (it says he's not in the ): correct group to su root, although the man page for su says he is in the ): correct group). Did you add the account to the wheel group within /etc/group? Read the man page on group. -- : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!