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Add an answer to the ``can't su to root because you're not in wheel''

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Dima Dorfman 2001-04-28 07:17:19 +00:00
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.185 2001/04/25 09:25:22 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.186 2001/04/26 01:48:18 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="su-wheel-group">
<para>&man.su.1; says <errorname>you are not in the correct group
to su root</errorname> when I try to su to
<username>root</username>.</para>
</question>
<!-- XXX uses <username> around a group name -->
<answer>
<para>This is a security feature. In order to su to
<username>root</username> (or any other account with superuser
privileges), you must be in the <username>wheel</username>
group. If this feature were not there, anybody with an account
on a system who also found out <username>root</username>'s
password would be able to gain superuser level access to the
system. With this feature, this isn't strictly true;
&man.su.1; will prevent them from even trying to enter the
password if they aren't in <username>wheel</username>.</para>
<para>To allow someone to su to <username>root</username>, simply
put them in the wheel group.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="rcconf-readonly">
<para>I made a mistake in <filename>rc.conf</filename>,

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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.185 2001/04/25 09:25:22 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.186 2001/04/26 01:48:18 dd Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="su-wheel-group">
<para>&man.su.1; says <errorname>you are not in the correct group
to su root</errorname> when I try to su to
<username>root</username>.</para>
</question>
<!-- XXX uses <username> around a group name -->
<answer>
<para>This is a security feature. In order to su to
<username>root</username> (or any other account with superuser
privileges), you must be in the <username>wheel</username>
group. If this feature were not there, anybody with an account
on a system who also found out <username>root</username>'s
password would be able to gain superuser level access to the
system. With this feature, this isn't strictly true;
&man.su.1; will prevent them from even trying to enter the
password if they aren't in <username>wheel</username>.</para>
<para>To allow someone to su to <username>root</username>, simply
put them in the wheel group.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="rcconf-readonly">
<para>I made a mistake in <filename>rc.conf</filename>,