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ennservogt
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 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: su doesn't work |
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Hello,
I used the root account to setup my system and my desktop environment (yes, i know that this is silly). Yesterday I copied the home dirrectory of the superuser "root" into the home directory of the user "christoph". Then I changed the permissions of the copied files. Well, my problem is that when I issue the "su" command when logged in as "christoph" to become a superuser to do some administrative tasks, no matter if I do this on the console or under the X window system using a terminal emulator like xterm, I can't become "root". su says that the password supplied is wrong. The strange thing is, that I can login to the root account on the console without any problems.
I have absolutely no clue what is wrong.
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sh-2.05b$ su
Password:
su: Permission denied
Sorry.
sh-2.05b$
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/var/log/messages says:
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su[9469] pam_authenticate: permission denied
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Thanks in advance,
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Crenshaw
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Is user that you use to "su" in wheel group? |
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ravensix
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds to me like that user isn't in the wheel group, what does | Code: | | more /etc/group |grep wheel |
return? if your user isn't in there you can add it by doing | Code: | | gpasswd -M christoph wheel |
I believe you have to add the other groups along with wheel, but im not sure.
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jdgill0
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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See this Gentoo faq.
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ennservogt
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject: solved |
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Thank you very much guys!
I have searched for a solution in the internet and in this forum, but I didn't find a hint. Maybe I have just searched for the wrong terms.
The user christoph was not in the wheel group and thus was not allowed to su. |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| jdgill0 wrote: | | See this Gentoo faq. |
Moving to dups.
@ennservogt: searching for terms with less than three characters (like su) is not possible.
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