The reason a user must be in the "wheel" group in order to use "su" on a gentoo system can be found in: /etc/pam.d/su
There is a line stating: auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid If you comment out that line, all users (regardless of their group) will be able to use "su". There is also a line which allows users of the wheel group to "su" w/o a password.. Brice On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:34 pm, brett holcomb wrote: > Normally those who need to su need to be in the wheel > group. > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:20:30 -0800 > Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >I had the same problem. The way i fixed it was to add the > >user into a > >particular group. I forget which group it was though (I > >dont have access to > >my gentoo machine at work), but if you look at /etc/group > >it might be > >obvious. > >Balaji > > > >-----Original Message----- > > From: Susie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:53 PM > >To: Gentoo User Help > >Subject: [gentoo-user] Still having problems with X, Su, > >reboot/shutdown, and logins > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
