KDE - how to?

[Reko Turja]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sasa Stupar" <sasa at stupar.homelinux.net>
To: "RW" <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com>; 
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: KDE - how to?


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> --On 22. december 2005 17:19 +0000 RW 
> <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
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>> Are you in the wheel group?
>> _______________________________________________
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> No, I am not in wheel group. I thought I could su if I am not in the 
> wheel group (well, at least I can do it on linux) but I am learning 
> FreeBSD slowly.

You _must_ be in the wheel group to be able to su in any case. Linux 
people see whole wheel group and root as a bad thing for anarchistic 
society, BSD folks like the additional layer of security - One has to 
crack wheel group users password or account in order to get root in a 
machine using su.

> BUt why it won't let me log in as root? As I have read if the 
> following line  has secure written then root logins are allowed:
> ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/kdm"  xterm   on secure
> or have I missaunderstood this?

Secure means that root can login from these terminals directly (insecure 
terminals enforce the login as regular user then su:ing).

-Reko