From: "Mark Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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.

So you don't get any errors?  Have you looked in your log files?  Are you
sure you don't have root privileges?  I may be wrong but I don't think
"whoami" will display "root" unless you 'su -l' which is to simulate a full
login.

Matt W.


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