Hi, Yann, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Yann Ormanns wrote: > 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". That was it! I've now got su-ability from that normal user. Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. Thanks. > Best regards, > Yann -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
