Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe I read that you need to be a member of the "wheel" group before you can use su.

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What did you do with etc-update?  If you updated things like /etc/group or /etc/passwd then you will have a problem.  
> 
> From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/09 Fri AM 10:39:11 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!
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> Hi,
> 
> I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with
> 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I
> quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su',
> System reply 
> su: Permission denied!
> Sorry
> 
> what's wrong?
> 
> PLS help me.
> 
> Roger
> 
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