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I installed FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1 on my Vmware worksattion 10. I can log in to it by my username but when I what to shutdown it using the statement "shutdown -p now", it says: "Permission denied". So I have to use this command: "su" followed by the root password (which I've given it at the installing time), but this time it says: "Sorry" The current time and date followed by: "BAD SU" my username to root password "on /dev/ttyv0"

While I enter the root password proceeded by the SU, so why I can't shutdown it safely, please?

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  • Has your password special chars (maybe keyboard encoding problem) ?
    – Droga Mleczna
    Commented Jun 3, 2014 at 17:22
  • No. For example, consider it is something like Programming.
    – abbasi
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 5:21
  • Is your user member of group wheel?
    – Droga Mleczna
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 5:29
  • I don't really now. I'm novice at FreeBSD and installed it using the written instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook. I first made the root password, and a locale (or something like that- I've forgotten its correct name now) user (because it has been said that this way shutting down is more safe) by my name (here, Aria Abbasi) then a password for my user (say, computer). But I think there was a group named Abbasi made.
    – abbasi
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 6:42
  • What is the output of groups yourusername?
    – Droga Mleczna
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 6:53

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Maybe you are not member of group wheel, to add a user to a this group:

pw user mod <username> -G wheel
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