SSH situation and authentication.

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dragos240

I have a server in my room. I don't want to connect a monitor to it. I have enabled ssh access to it, but I can only login to my non-root user, which isn't in the group wheel. So I can't find a way to remote control it with root privileges. Any help?
 
You will need to do some initial setup on the box before you make it headless, add any non-root users to the wheel group before you try and go headless. Then you can elevate your account as needed. Hope this helps
 
Slightly more precise: add users you want to give root access to the wheel group, not all non-root users ;)

Log in as the normal user and use [cmd=]su -[/cmd], et voilá.
 
... and who you wish to grant the right to su root ... the others need to be kept out of the wheel group at all times.
 
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