Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

[Beau E. Cox]

On Monday 09 January 2006 04:27 am, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my
> > normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message.
> >
> > I have tried:
> > 1) changed the root password; no joy
> > 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto
> > 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope
> > 4) rebooted; nada
> >
> > I can't seem to find any change from the last time
> > I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this
> > problem.
> >
> > Can anyone think of what I should try next?
> >
> > --
> > Aloha => Beau;
>
> You've probably already checked this one, but are they all in the wheel
> group?  Also, a long time ago I remember there was a problem where I had
> to re-emerge shadow to get su to work...

Yep!!! Not in the wheel group; put them back and all is well.

Now I wonder when I messed that up... :)  :)

Thanks,

-- 
Aloha => Beau;

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