Cannot su or use sudo

[walterbyrd]

Brand new FreeBSD installation.

When I try to sudo I get

sudo: not found

When I try to su I get

su: sorry

What can I do?

 

[tobik@]

I am quoting su(1):

PAM is used to set the policy su(1) will use. In particular, by default
only users in the “wheel” group can switch to UID 0 (“root”).

So the quickest way to solve this is to add your user to the wheel group with pw usermod walterbyrd -G wheel

For sudo install security/sudo with pkg install security/sudo. You then also need to edit /usr/local/etc/sudoers to set it up for either the wheel group or your user account.

 

[Oko]

Do you know how to edit /usr/local/etc/sudoers? man visudo. Note that sudo on UNIX is used to give privileges to a user to execute a single command for which super user account is required. Everything that Ubuntu does with sudo is WRONG!

 

[Deleted member 9563]

Just my opinion, but I don't think that users of FreeBSD generally require sudo. In Ubuntu it makes sense when it is assumed that the user is not aware of the importance of user privileges. I've been using out-of-the-box Debian sometimes lately, and sudo sure is a drag. It's a real relief when I get back to my own box where I can do what I want.

 

[Speedy]

You can use sudo -i even when root account does not allow logins.

 

[kpa]

I've found security/sudo much more handier than the other solutions. I just happen to be a person who thinks that the whole root account could have been dispensed with and replaced with a capability based security model, essentially have just one user account that could gain elevated privileges on demand. Maybe one day this is reality in UNIX

 

[Oko]

Just my opinion, but I don't think that users of FreeBSD generally require sudo.

It is useful to give a junior system admin privileges to execute few commands without giving out the whole system to a guy. At home I am using sudo on my OpenBSD desktops only to mount external file systems USB, DVD, Cameras (Please no flames OpenBSD has its own indigenous auto mounting daemon but some people like yours truly just don't like to use it). I am with you. When I do really system administration the first command is su -

 

[Clara James]

Facing the same problem

 

[SirDice]

Same solution, security/sudo needs to be installed and configured and only members of the wheel group are allowed to su(1).