Problems with su

[Johnson David]

Jake Rothenbuhler wrote:

>Hi, I am a new FreeBSD user.  I recently installed 5.1-RELEASE on my 
>Compaq Presario laptop and everything has been going great.  However,
>whenever I try to run su as my normal user I get the following error
>message before I even get a password prompt:
>  
>

Is your user authorized to perform su? Under BSD systems, unlike Linux, 
only members of the wheel group may use the su command.

David