you bumped yourself from the 'wheel' group and replaced with 'games'. You need to run with '-g' option instead of '-G'.
hth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Konkle-Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] su: permission denied
>
>
> Ok, I have no idea what happened here, but all of a sudden I lost the
> ability to 'su' into root.
>
> I did an `su` and logged in as root, emerged some stuff, and did a
> `usermod -G games joeljkp` to add myself to the 'games' group. I then
> did `exit` to get back to my account.
>
> Now when I type `su`, I get an error that says `su:
> permission denied`.
> I've tried over and over again, with the correct password,
> and nothing.
> I can switch to tty1 and login as root to begin with, with the exact
> same password, and it lets me in. Log in as myself, `su`,
> same password,
> and 'permission denied'.
>
> What's going on here?
>
>
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