su: Sorry?

From: Jeff D. Hamann (jeff_hamann_at_hamanndonald.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:17:36 -0800

While trying to get another program to simply build correctly, I've
installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a laptop and like it so far, but there's a couple
of different behaviors from 4.4 I need to get cleared up.

Since I've never had to expressly configure this, how do allow user(s) -
(read me) to change to su when logged in as a normal user. I only get

$ su
su: Sorry
$

I've looked in the /etc/pam.d/su file and it's little daunting and man pam
didn't seem to be much help to me.

The su file contains the lines (about half-way down):

# If you want a "WHEELSU"-type su(1), then comment out the
# above, and uncomment the entries below.

Since I'm not too sure what that means (more like 4.4?) and I want to change
the default behaviour as possible, how do I allow a normal user to switch to
su?

I'm sure I'll stumble onto the answer shortly....

Thanks,
Jeff. 

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Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421
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jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com
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