If I remembers correctly, you have to be a member of the group wheel (gid
0) to su to root. This is the case according to the su man-page, and on
one the FreeBSD system I run.

I beleive the solution to your problem would be to add yourself to the
group wheel in /etc/group.

/PoJ

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kevin Ogden wrote:

> Hi, I'm having trouble getting su to work under user accounts.  I have the group
> and passwd files set up correctly though, it asks me for a password when run
> as a user but when I enter the root password it says "Sorry.".  su works fine
> when run as root though.  I'm running the snapshot release with the NetBSD-1.4L-DMASCSI
> kernel on a VS3100.  Any help would be appreciated.  :)
> 
> Kevin  
>