Newbie Question

[paladin256]

I have just installed FreeBSD for the first time the version is 5.1. I have set root password and created a normal user and password. When I log in as the normal users and try to su I immediately su sorry!. Do I need to do some configuration somewhere that allows users to su? I am familiar with systems like mandrake, solaris, etc. So I don't know if this is a bug or just something different with FreeBSD.

Thanks

 

[uptodate]

Does your user belong to the wheel group?

 

[paladin256]

No, I do not believe so. Do I just do a chgrp user wheel?

 

[paladin256]

I got it. Thanks for the help. The command was pw usermod -n username -g groupname

Thanks again

 

[ecg]

vi /etc/group

Add yourself to the group "wheel"

Suppose your name is ( joe )

Example:

wheel:*:0:root,joe

Now save your changes and exit the file!

Walla, that's all there is too it...