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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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Best regards, |
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Yann |
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