>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:27:15 +1000 (EST)
>From: Salvatore Salamone <saausa@wurley.apana.org.au>

>* While the booting the system 'loadbsd -a netbsd' I log in as root later 
>  after logged in it tells me not to use 'root' use 'su', so I tried that 
>  but it always ask for password for 'su' that I don't know I tried 'su', 
>  password, also (enter) as password but it tells me incorrect.

Your non-root userid needs to be a member of the wheel group.  See
group(5).

>* I notice some other prgs & utilities in the /contrib dir like Elm, 
>  adduser, etc I not too sure where I can I add these what's a good place 
>  to add utilities or network prgs and others in my system.

The NetBSD distribution has no /contrib dir.  The usual place to put
such things is /usr/local/{bin,sbin}.
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