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. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
