On Tuesday 06 September 2011 15:13:48 Fbsd8 wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to > >> issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. > >> > >> How do I fix this? > > > > Make the directory that contains where your user is trying to create a > > new subdirectory writable by group wheel. Either that, or teach your > > user to use su(1) or sudo(1) so they can mkdir as root. (Adding users > > to group wheel so they are permitted to run su(1) is a BSD-ism, and is > > the usual reason for adding anyone to wheel.) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > Matthew > Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group. I > su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get > returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command > embedded still returns Permission Denied message. I have read the su man > page to no joy. Could you please explain the sequence of events to get > su to work.
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