Check to see that the "suid bit" of the "su" binary itself is not out of whack. It should be thus:
-rwsr-xr-x I think you need sudo permissions for the "su" command binary file itself to substitute root while logged in as another nonroot user. On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:18, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:13:37AM -0600, Chris Speir wrote: > > I am running gentoo linux. After doing emerge -uD world, i can not su > > into the root account anymore. My user account is in the wheel group but > > it still doesn't work. su gives me the message "You are not authorized > > to su root". I used to have the pam use flag set but I removed it and > > stopped using pam, I don't believe this broke anything else, and I am > > not shure if this would be a factor anyways. Can anyone help? > > As your own user, run the command `groups` to verify that your addition > to the wheel group took effect. It might be that you haven't logged back > in (all the back way from the tty) since the change was made. A user's > groups are determined when they originally log in. > > hth > > danb ________________________________________________________________________ Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-0264, United States emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Home Page: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel Get Firefox! ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [email protected] http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
