Beech Rintoul wrote:
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.
user# su
Pass: root password
root#
Beech
Thank you Beech.
I was entering the password of the user.
When I entered root's password the script containing mkdir worked.
One remaining question. Is there any time limit on having root access?
I mean will root access remain until the user exits?
Thanks again
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
