--- Jerry Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > or members of group operator. having to be root or su/sudoing is only an affliction of linux. only root can run reboot however, but the is generally frounded upon; running shutdown -r ensures a clean reboot. as a security side note the members of operator also get raw access to drives and tapes so they can run dumps of the system... -brian > > 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]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"