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Old 23rd August 2008
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by 18Googol2 View Post
Im 100% sure the password is correct. I can do sudo fine
This statement is not entirely clear.

Note that su(1) requires a different password than sudo(8). su(1) requires the password of the root account. sudo(8) (if configured as such...) allows root access using the password of a user account.

Likewise, note that FreeBSD will only allow su(1) to succeed (even if the root password is known...) if & only if the user's account is a member of the wheel group.

http://www.freebsddiary.org/su.php

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