Bug 61125

Summary: After installation of FreeBSD 5.1 I cannot use the su command from my lusername to my root....
Product: Base System Reporter: Jeff Hebert <jeff13>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Jeff Hebert 2004-01-09 14:50:15 UTC 
  After installation of FreeBSD 5.1 I went into my user account and tried to su to root. The O/S reported back su:sorry.??  I am learning UNIX so I am not certain how to correct this problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I just did the recommended install...After installation I went into my root and did a pkg_add for xfree86 snd gnome..
Comment 1 Simon L. B. Nielsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-01-09 17:02:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

To su from a user account to root, the user has to be in the wheel 
group.  See 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-groups.html 
for adding a user to a group. 

Questions like this should rather be directed to the 
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailinglist, which is made for this kind 
of questions.