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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I can't login as superuser Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 21:01:30 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32AC7E2A.27EA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32A56BC8.69A11759@vision.felk.cvut.cz> <58h4fr$ctf@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) H. Jared Agnew wrote: > > Jaroslav Klaus (klaus@cvlinux.felk.cvut.cz) wrote: > : Root made a new user ID=1000, Gid=0 (wheel), but this user can't > : use su. > > The user 1000, should be the first user on the machine, if added by adduser > script. It probably should not be Gid=0, you should pick a # for a users > group. > > : The su command told me 'You group can't login as su root.' > : (I'm also root). > > The reason is probably because you have not added user (ID=1000) to the > wheel group in /etc/group. You don't need the GID in the wheel group; just the username. Initially, only root is a member of wheel; anyone added to wheel can su to root after logging in. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |