As someone pointed out to me earlier, you have to be part of the "wheel"
group to "su". You might want to check that, although I don't see how the
command below removed you from the "wheel" group.

-Nathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Konkle-Parker

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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