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Hi, Yann, |
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Yann Ormanns wrote: |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. |
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> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> |
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> To: Yann Ormanns <yann-ormanns@×××.de> |
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> Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+0000) |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > When, as a normal user, I type "su", followed, when prompted, by the |
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> > root password, I get the following error message: |
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> > su: Permission denied |
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> > . The return code is 1. I can't glean anything useful from the man |
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> > page. |
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> > Would somebody please tell me what I'm missing. |
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> > Many thanks! |
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> Are you a member of the "wheel"-group? You can check that by executing |
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> "id yourname". If not, execute "usermod -aG wheel yourname". |
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That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. |
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Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a |
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wheel. |
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Thanks. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Yann |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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