Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-06 Thread thomas
On Thursday 05 October 2006 01:25 pm, albi wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I

Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread thomas
Hi All, I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system do not have permission to effect the command. Went back as root on a later

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Withers
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system do not have

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread albi
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system do not have permission to

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I have not put a finger on yet I

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread Jerry Bell
You need to be in the wheel group to be able to SU to root, but that won't give you permission to run shutdown. Only root can do that, I believe. Hi All, I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel group during the add users portion of the installation. For

Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

2006-10-05 Thread backyard
--- Jerry Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to be in the wheel group to be able to SU to root, but that won't give you permission to run shutdown. Only root can do that, I believe. or members of group operator. having to be root or su/sudoing is only an affliction of linux. only