to check in what groups your user is in you can just type
$ groups
to change the groups, you have to do, as root,
% usermod -G [groups] user
you have to include all groups in a comma separated list (for example:
users,wheel ), I don´t think you can simply add a group...
don´t have any ideas as to the cause of the problem, though...
hope that´s helpful,
On 6/10/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a
> problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I
> unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a
> screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root from my
> personal account. I have to log completely out and then log in as root
> from the login screen. I use users-admin for my user maintenance, but
> now there's a tab that says "User Privileges" where the "User's Groups"
> tab used to be, so I can't figure out how to make sure that my personal
> account is in the right group(s) to su - to root. A lot of things are
> different now. I keep a gnome-terminal open at all times and it the
> prompt now shows "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $" when I'm in my home directory
> instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $" which I preferred. I could su - to
> root yesterday while the upgrades were taking place and root's prompt
> was the same. And then my Inbox Monitor applet is gone, so I have to
> click on the running evolution button every time I want to see if I have
> any email (which is quite often actually). Is there any way I can fix
> all this, or at least get my su - privileges back?
>
>
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