>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

Suse 9.0, although has a wheel group, does not support it.  Anyway just for curiosity 
i added my user to the wheel group, root group, and I still could not su to root.  
Another wierd thing is that it acts like it accepts my password but when i type 
"whoami" i'm still the origional user.
In my googleing and searching i did see something about sudo and su being "turned off" 
for every user but root.
 
Thank you in advance
Mark Gardner

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