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. >
Do that and see if su works. > Thanks, > Chris > > Analabha Roy wrote: > > 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 > > ________________________________________________________________________ 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
