AA Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Problem: $ su password: *********** su: Access Denied Sorry. $ Okay.... you can see my problem...!! I have checked permissions on su itself... I have also run "su -" Neither of these 2 things worked.....!! Has someone else had the same problem..? Does someone know how to fix it.! I don't. Pleez help! AA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AA Posted August 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 I just found the answer 3 minutes after asking the question...!!! So all of you Gentoo users who have this same problem... Only users who belong to the group "wheel" can su.!! Solution: # usermod -G users,wheel,audio username or goto: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23378 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 this is a common thing in *bsd too ... the wheel group ;-) you'll also find the wheel group in Mandrake-Security-MNF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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