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 (+0000)
> 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! > Are you a member of the "wheel"-group? You can check that by executing "id yourname". If not, execute "usermod -aG wheel yourname". Best regards, Yann
