On Monday 09 January 2006 04:27 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > 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...
Yep!!! Not in the wheel group; put them back and all is well. Now I wonder when I messed that up... :) :) Thanks, -- Aloha => Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
