Fresh Install Super User

[freebsd777]

I have a fresh install. I cannot become super user using

su
su -

Can someone please tell me the right way. I use ssh.

 

[Deleted member 81054]

Is your user listed in the wheel group?

 

[freebsd777]

Another post solved it:

M

Thread 'su : Sorry'

Jul 6, 2009

Hi

I just installed freebsd FreeBSD 7.1 on VMware, then installed GNOME with sysinstall and everything worked fine but then I decided to install KDE and I did, well, I should say it's nice but the problem is I cannot run su or sudo when I'mm logged in with a normal user , so I am really stuck!

When I type su or sudo I get this answer:

%su: Sorry

Thanks.

• moolideejay
• Replies: 27
• Forum: KDE

Thanks.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Is your user in the wheel group ?

 

[drr]

As others have suggested already, if your user is not in the 'wheel' group, login as root and add your user to 'wheel' group with pw groupmod wheel -m <username>.
groups <username> will tell you which groups your user is member of.

 

[freebsd777]

Yeah I did. Thank you.