*embarrased* freebsd su root does nothing

Hello,

I recently inherited 4 freebsd servers. I admit i am in deep water (i use ubuntu, but it does everything for you so you don't really learn how to use a *nix system at all) and am starting to read up on freebsd.

For the moment though I have a pretty important stumbling block. When I "su root" nothing happens.

I stay as my current user though it looks like it starts another session as the same user (ctrl d exits out of it).

my user is in wheel, and su root is working on the other three machines, its just this one...

Heres what it looks like, no errors or anything:

What happens if you type whoami after you type su root and your password?

oh.... hrmm. it says root!

So it did switch then? I guess i expected the terminal to change to a pound sign like it did on the other machines.

It should have, I'm not sure how to make it do so in freebsd. Or at least the thing should have said root@freebsd4 instead of sdfhsdfhj@freebsd4.

It just looks like your prompt isn't configured to show a "$" or "#". Having the prompt change like that is a feature of the shell, not the system itself. The number in parentheses at the end of your prompt (before the colon) is probably the current user id.