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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: su doesn't work
Date: 29 May 1997 05:52:54 GMT
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In article <5mil5n$ifk@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
Michael Mir Shafae <cadaver@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>I just got FreeBSD 2.1.7 working and I made myself an account during
>the initial installation. However when I am logged in as this account
>I can't use su. It gives the a kerberos error that I am not in the
>proper group to be able to use the su command. I don't quite follow
>what I must do to be able to use su from an account. Right now there
>are only two accounts on my machine: 'root' and 'me'. What must I do to
>allow 'me' to do an su.

add 'me' to the 'wheel' group.
--don