From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8uSk-0005lH-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:13:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAADF1C02D; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.majordomo.ru (webmail.majordomo.ru [78.108.81.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977971C02D for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nobody by webmail.majordomo.ru with local (Exim 4.74 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8uRQ-000Jhd-G6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:12:36 +0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. X-PHP-Originating-Script: 65534:compose2.php Received: from 95.26.205.132 (auth. user shumkar@shumkar.ru@192.168.0.44) by with HTTP; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:12:36 +0400 X-IlohaMail-Blah: shumkar@shumkar.ru X-IlohaMail-Method: mail() [mem] X-IlohaMail-Dummy: moo X-Mailer: IlohaMail/0.8.14 (On: ) Message-ID: <8QcHRaKo.1302441156.4770970.shumkar@shumkar.ru> In-Reply-To: <20110410132146.GA936@muc.de> From: "Alexey Mishustin" Bounce-To: "Alexey Mishustin" Errors-To: "Alexey Mishustin" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:12:36 +0400 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 89686b115af8dec34894f62c3c1b3f0b 4/10/2011, "Alan Mackenzie" =E2=FB =EF=E8=F1=E0=EB=E8: >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