Subject: Re: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
To: BETO <beto@bonbon.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/12/2003 14:50:32
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, BETO wrote:
> when initiating session in the box does show my ID 1000 and I do not
> have access to anything, already tries with vipw to reconstruct db but
> nothing,
What do you want to do?
What do you mean you "do not have access to anything"?
Only the superuser can use vipw.
To become superuser using "su", you need to member of wheel group. You
will need to login as root first to be able to edit /etc/group.
Jeremy C. Reed
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