On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:42:17PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote: > Jez Hancock wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote: > > > >>I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem > >>to su to root while using my normal account. > >>All I get is a message saying "Sorry." Can anyone help? > > > > > >Try resetting the root password perhaps? See here: > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW > > > > Don't even think about that yet.. Read the reply from Matthew Seaman and > mine first, if you can't become root after that, you might start > considering it...
Well my thinking was that the user must already in the wheel group otherwise the error would have been: su: you are not in the correct group (wheel) to su root. and not: Sorry Maybe I was jumping to conclusions though :P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
