On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Q. Gong wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > > > Q. Gong said: > > > > > (root) # su > > > su: Permission denied > > > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > > root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root) > > > > There are something interesting. I am using Debian 3.0 (Woody). It's > almost a newly installed system. >
I maybe found the reason. This is due to PAM. I restricted that only users in group wheel can use su. But root is not in wheel. I will check it this evening and then feed back. Now I am on another machin running SuSe 7.0. Command su by root works. Thanks a lot for all replies. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
