Install issue: get root login in GUI

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote:
>  On 18/06/07, Harriet Severino <severino42 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having install isues and can not login as root in the GUI. I have
> > to re-boot and come up in single user mode to work as root. Then when I
> > need to look something up, I have to boot into regular mode, look it up
> > on the web, then re-boot into single user mode. This is cumbersome to
> > say the least. I need to install the jdk, and keep rebooting to check
> > the doc!
> 
>  By default root is not allowed to login to the GUI. So far, this is
>  "works as designed".
>  There are two options:
>  1. Switch to a console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+1 vor example. This will
>  give you a console login that doesn't reject root. Do the things you
>  want to do as root there.
>  2. Add yourself to the group "wheel". This will allow you to login *as
>  a normal user*, open a terminal and do a "su -". Enter the root
>  password, and you're done. To do this you probably need to use a
>  console login and edit /etc/group apropriately. :-)

It's better to use pw(8). to do user and group management. In this case 
'pw groupmod wheel -m <yourname>' would do the trick. 

Although you can edit /etc/group, you should not edit /etc/passwd,
because it should be generated from /etc/master.passwd. Therefore it's
best to get used to using pw(8). It will also help generate valid group
and passwd syntax.

Roland
-- 
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated]
pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914  B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070618/aa1ced97/attachment.pgp