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From: Olivier Reisch <gentoo@××××××××.net>
To: gentooppc-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentooppc-dev] Switched to gentoo...
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:10:21
Message-Id: 200204191910.22501.gentoo@karasuma.net
In Reply to: [gentooppc-dev] Switched to gentoo... by Olivier Reisch
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4 > I met yet another problem:
5 >
6 > doctomoe@ibook doctomoe $ su -
7 > Password:
8 > su: Permission denied
9 > Sorry.
10 >
11 > I gave it the right password though. Any idea what might be wrong?
12 > Logging in as root from console works, it's just su that's borked. Didn't
13 > have the time yet to look into it.
14 >
15 > Greets,
16 > Olivier
17
18 Duh, noone replied. Now I had to stop being lazy again ;)
19
20 Found the culprit:
21
22 PAM is set up so only users in the "wheel" group can use "su". Either add
23 trusted users to "wheel" or go to /etc/pam.d, edit the su file and remove the
24 "auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid"
25 line
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27 Greets,
28 Olivier
29
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Re: [gentooppc-dev] Switched to gentoo... Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@××××××.be>