On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:00, Mark Gardner wrote: > I'm running SuSE 9.0 and I can't type "su" to gain root access. I can > still login as root even "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" but can't do "su root or > su" from the console window. > > Any bright Ideas? Have I perhaps disabled it somehow?
With some distributions, I'm not sure about SuSE in particular, you need to be a member of the `wheel' group to be able to su to root. From a simple google search, I believe SuSE behaves in the same way. Hyrum ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
