Su to Root

[Remko Lodder]

Jez Hancock wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Kevin Coles wrote:
> 
>>I am using freebsd 5.2, which I have installed recently. I cannot seem 
>>to su to root while using my normal account.
>>All I get is a message saying "Sorry." Can anyone help?
> 
> 
> Try resetting the root password perhaps?  See here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW
> 

Don't even think about that yet.. Read the reply from Matthew Seaman and 
mine first, if you can't become root after that, you might start 
considering it...

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Remko Lodder
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