user removed from wheel group after reboot

[adamw]

Hi all,

pfSense 2.4.4, FreeBSD 11.2

I've added a few users (with full admin access) in web GUI.

Now trying to grant them shell root access as below:

pw groupmod wheel -m myuser

or

pw usermod myuser -G wheel

in both cases I can see myuser appended to wheel group in /etc/group but after OS reboot it disappears.

How do I make it permanent?

Thanks,
Adam

[viragomann]

Use the User manager of the web configurator and add them to the admins group:

[adamw]

They are already members of admins group and I can see it in /etc/group

But how do I elevate privileges in shell:

su -
Sorry: su

sudo su -
sudo: Command not found.

?

[viragomann]

So also assign the the appropriate privileges to them:

sudo is not delivered with pfSense. You may install the subo package if you need it.

[jimp]

Use the sudo package. Do not manually modify accounts in the shell. pfSense isn't engineered to allow what you are attempting to stay long-term.

[tim.mcmanus]

See this recent thread for additional detail.

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/137939/bypass-su-sorry-on-pfsense