Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 April 2011 01:46:44 Mark Shields wrote: That response wasn't really meant for you, your reply just happened to be the one I clicked reply on. What? Just happened? Don't you think before you post? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I type su, followed, when prompted, by the root password, I get the following error message: su: Permission denied . The return code is 1. I can't glean anything useful from the man page. Would somebody please tell me what I'm missing. Many thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alexey Mishustin
4/10/2011, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de вы писали: Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I type su, followed, when prompted, by the root password, I get the following error message: su: Permission denied . The return code is 1. I can't glean anything useful from the man page. Would somebody

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Yann Ormanns
Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. From: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de To: Yann Ormanns yann-orma...@web.de Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+) Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I type su, followed, when prompted, by the root password, I get the following error message: su

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:19 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Yann Ormanns did opine thusly: Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. From: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de To: Yann Ormanns yann-orma...@web.de Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+) Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Yann, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Yann Ormanns wrote: Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. From: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de To: Yann Ormanns yann-orma...@web.de Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+) Hi, Gentoo. When, as a normal user, I type su, followed, when

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Dale
That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. Thanks. Best regards, Yann I think that is a Gentoo thing. It does add some security if you don't want a user, like maybe some little

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 07:58:21 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. oh thats because the wheel was invented after the previous debian release :D. -- - Yohan Pereira A man can do as he will, but not will as he will -

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html Bottom section.

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. Thanks. Best regards, Yann I think that is a

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. Thanks. Best regards, Yann

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:52:39 +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote: Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. oh thats because the wheel was invented after the previous debian release :D. ROTFL -- Neil Bothwick Time is an illusion but never so much as when

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Mark Shields
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:32 on Monday 11 April 2011, Mark Shields did opine thusly: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Dale did opine thusly: That was it! I've now

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-10 Thread Mark Shields
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:32 on Monday 11 April 2011, Mark Shields did opine thusly: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:28