On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:55, Mark Gardner wrote: > 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.
There is a thing called the sudoers list that controls something like that, but I thought it only controlled who could use the sudo command. Hans Fugal would be able to tell you. So look in /etc/sudoers. Mine says: root ALL=(ALL) ALL Also have a look in various log files (not sure which ones, but they're all in /var/log) to see if it's reporting a reason. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
