On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:41, Andrew Tarr wrote: > > su: Authentication Failure > > Sorry. > > On ye olde Unix, and some Linux distributions, you have to be a member of > the wheel group to be able to su. I'm now sure if this is current Debian > policy, but it's worth a try.
I'm pretty sure that is the position on debian. well i was until i booted mepis (debian based) to check the position. it does not contain a wheel group, and I can su to root. check it out anyway, mepis may have changed things.
