Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Maan Jee wrote on 13-05-2006 10:31: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? Add the user admin to the wheel group in /etc/groups. To Install a Web Server, which distribution I

Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread Adrian Pavone
Maan Jee wrote: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? To Install a Web Server, which distribution I should install, User or other? thanks vj

Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread John . Dickinson
Nils Vogels wrote on 13/05/2006 09:43:24: Maan Jee wrote on 13-05-2006 10:31: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? Add the user admin to the wheel group in /etc/groups.

Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend that you dont create an admin user. Create normal user accounts named after the user who will be logging in. Add users who will need to be able to do admin tasks to the wheel group. Then install sudo and configure it to allow users in the wheel