On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my
> normal users. I get the "su: Permission denied, Sorry." message.
> 
> I have tried:
> 1) changed the root password; no joy
> 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto
> 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope
> 4) rebooted; nada
> 
> I can't seem to find any change from the last time
> I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this
> problem.
> 
> Can anyone think of what I should try next?
> 
> -- 
> Aloha => Beau;

You've probably already checked this one, but are they all in the wheel
group?  Also, a long time ago I remember there was a problem where I had
to re-emerge shadow to get su to work...

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