From: "Alexey Mishustin" <shumkar@shumkar.ru>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:12:36 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8QcHRaKo.1302441156.4770970.shumkar@shumkar.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110410132146.GA936@muc.de>
4/10/2011, "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de> вы писали:
>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!
Is your normal user a member of the 'wheel' group?
--
Regards,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-10 13:13 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 [this message]
2011-04-10 13:19 ` Yann Ormanns
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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