Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mintaka!mit-eddie!mit-amt!lacsap From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Novice questions Message-ID: <1791@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Mar 90 22:41:34 GMT References: <25F6C30F.5138@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 19 In article <25F6C30F.5138@paris.ics.uci.edu> jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi) writes: >>2. I can't su to root. In contradiction to the man page on su, I am not >>prompted for a password. Instead, I get the message "You do not have >>permission to su root." > I think you have to be part of the "wheel" group. Change your >group affiliation to "wheel" (gid = 0) AND add your name to the "wheel" >group. Both can be done with the NetInfoManager application. > You do NOT need to change your group affiliation, just be part of the wheel group... pasc -- Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)