From: Yann Ormanns <yann-ormanns@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:19:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA1AE53.3010804@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110410132146.GA936@muc.de>
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".
Best regards,
Yann
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-10 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-10 13:21 [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me Alan Mackenzie
2011-04-10 13:12 ` Alexey Mishustin
2011-04-10 13:19 ` Yann Ormanns [this message]
2011-04-10 13:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-10 14:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-04-10 14:22 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-04-10 16:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-10 14:28 ` Dale
2011-04-10 15:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-10 15:35 ` Dale
2011-04-10 22:32 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-10 22:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-11 0:46 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-11 13:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-10 14:42 ` Albert Hopkins
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