Hi, You have to be in 'wheel' group to "su -" to root, or was this for sudo. check. Could also use 'gpasswd' to add a user to a group, run "man gpasswd". HTH. Rumen Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote:
>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 donīt think you can simply add a group... > >donīt have any ideas as to the cause of the problem, though... > >hope thatīs 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? >> >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > > > >
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