On Thursday 17 August 2006 09:50, Reg wrote: > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > It would be worth adding yourself to the 'wheel' group > > what may I ask is a wheel group and how does one add themselves to it? The 'wheel' group is for the 'Big Wheel' people in the organisation, i.e. the folks who have positions of responsibility vis a vis the computer, and can become 'root' by way of the su command.
This stops the hoi-poloi users getting 'root' access level they are not entitled to even if the root password 'escapes' somehow. > I have now figured out how to login as root so am learning fast, well one > command a day is better than none LOL :-) It would therefore appear that PCBSD has either changed the standard *BSDism mentioned above or has added you to the wheel group. You might be able to change the /etc/group file using the vigr command. ( I'm not a regular PCBSD user so don't know definitively ) man vigr for the whole gory story. -- CS
