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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:36:53
Message-Id: 1136816835.9804.63.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] su stopped working by "Beau E. Cox"
1 On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote:
2 > Hi -
3 >
4 > Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my
5 > normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message.
6 >
7 > I have tried:
8 > 1) changed the root password; no joy
9 > 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto
10 > 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope
11 > 4) rebooted; nada
12 >
13 > I can't seem to find any change from the last time
14 > I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this
15 > problem.
16 >
17 > Can anyone think of what I should try next?
18 >
19 > --
20 > Aloha => Beau;
21
22 You've probably already checked this one, but are they all in the wheel
23 group? Also, a long time ago I remember there was a problem where I had
24 to re-emerge shadow to get su to work...
25
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Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED] "Beau E. Cox" <beaucox@×××××××××.com>