The user in question that is running the su command needs to be a member of the Wheel user group.
Cheers Simon On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:35, Dan Egli wrote: > Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any > unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I enter > the root password I become root. But on my gentoo box every time I run > su I get: > > su: Permission denied > Sorry. > > Huh? Permission denied? Whats up with this? Anyone experience it beore? > How can I fix it? sudo works fine but if I want to do several things as > root I don't want to sudo each of them. > > --- Dan > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
