Right, that is usually what happens. Logout as user and back in as root. Then set the permissions backup again.
On Thursday 05 June 2003 05:25 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I had this problem a while back. It was that I was removed from teh wheel > group. I could log on to root in a console, but not su. Try it. > > HTH > Mike > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 06:14 pm, Eric Marchionni wrote: > > hi > > > > i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. > > otherwise more people will also experience this problem... > > > > regards, > > eric > > > > Mike Arrison wrote: > > > Paulo, > > > I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with > > > the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that one > > > of the versions of dhcp overwrites the /etc/passwd and|or > > > /etc/group files. This is _very_ bad. Either, your root user got > > > blown away, or, more likely, you got kicked out of the wheel group in > > > the /etc/group file. If you have a backup of /etc/group and > > > /etc/passwd I'd recommend finding the effected lines. > > > > > > -Mike Arrison > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote: > > >>Hi all, > > >> > > >>I have Gentoo Linux installed in my PC and today I did as usually su - > > >>root to change to root. I entered the password for root, and emerged > > >>dhcp. After that I exited root and since then I was enable to enter as > > >>root. It's just not accepting my password, which is extremely odd. I've > > >>tried a hundred times already and I know the correct password, I'm > > >>surely not wrong and caps lock is just ok. > > >> > > >>Any ideas on how to solve this issue? > > >> > > >>Best regards, > > >> > > >>Paulo J Matos > > >> > > >> > > >>-- > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
