Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

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 <acm@muc.de>
> To: Yann Ormanns <yann-ormanns@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).