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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!oronet!news From: John Girton <jgirton@oro.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: login as root Date: 28 May 1995 05:29:51 GMT Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA" Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3q91of$rr7@hg.oro.net> References: <3q8c44$9rf@detroit.freenet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: @jgirton.oro.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 32bit) ac381@detroit.freenet.org (Michael Marson) wrote: > >(putting on the asbestos suit) > >2) I have been unable to determine the default password for "su", which > is what BSD reports I must login as when I try to login as "root". > All seemingly obvious passwords (<enter>, "1", "123", etc) have failed. > >I have read through the various FAQs and info pages and cannot seem to >find anything that addresses such a seemingly significant problem. > >Any help, suggestions? No flames, please, as I am doing my darndest... >(in the time-honored Christian tradition) <G> > When you login as root, you ARE su (superuser). You use su when you login at a lesser level. The login must belong to the group 'wheel' to be able to use 'su'. I agree, some seemingly simple questions are kind of hard to find answers to. (I'm new too) John Girton jgirton@oro.net