On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:58, Chris Speir wrote:

> -rws--x--x are set, do I need the sudo package installed, I don't think 
> it currently is.
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Do that and see if su works.

> Thanks,
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> > Check to see that the "suid bit" of the "su" binary itself is not out of
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> > I think you need sudo permissions for the "su" command binary file 
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> >>On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:13:37AM -0600, Chris Speir wrote:
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> >>>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?
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> >>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.
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