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* [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.
@ 2011-04-10 13:21 99% Alan Mackenzie
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From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2011-04-10 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw
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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!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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