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Allowing Users to Become Root in FreeBSD

June 08, 2009

In order for a user to become root (using su or sudo) in FreeBSD, the user must be in the wheel group. To add an existing user to the wheel group, run the command 

pw user mod username -G wheel

Categories: Linux

Tags: freebsd, sudo

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