Did you install Kerberos? If you did or are not sure try "su -K". I just spent
a couple days chasing the same thing around. HTH.
On 14-Jan-99 Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, M. Poulin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my 2nd system, and I have set up
>> everything as I did on
>> my other system. However, my user account that I created is unable to su to
>> root.
>>
>> The first thing I checked was to make sure it was in the "wheel" group. It
>> is.
>
> If the user isn't in /etc/group's wheel group, su(1) will not allow
> the user to be root. Doesn't matter what the user's login-gid is.
>
> Jonathan Chen
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Date: 14-Jan-99
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