You need to be in the wheel group to be able to SU to root, but that won't give you permission to run shutdown. Only root can do that, I believe.
> Hi All, > > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel > group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I > have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system "do not have > permission" to effect the command. Went back as root on a later session > and > re-entered my name in /etc/group to the wheel account to no avail, anybody > got an idea as to where I need to look? > > Thanks, > Tommy2 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
