On 2018.02.03 16:05, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm.
I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and
login as root.
I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up
/etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install.
Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root'
I just get the `Permission denied' message.
I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux
distros.
I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while
logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'.
Any ideas whats might be wrong.
Have you tried just plain "su" ? Can you do "sudo bash" ? That might
be an easier (temporary) workaround than ssh.
See if "ls -al" in /root and in /etc show some file with strange
permissions.
Jack
