Walter Dnes wrote: > On one of my machines, my regular userID can su. On the other >machine, I can't. Before anyone asks... > > - yes, the user (me, i.e. waltdnes) is a member of wheel >[m1800][root][~]grep wheel /etc/group >wheel::10:root,waltdnes,user2 > > > - there is no /etc/suauth. I created one as per the suauth man page, > and it didn't make any difference. Yes, I (userID waltdnes) did log > out and log back in before trying su again. > > > - pam? We don't need no steenkin pam. It ain't there and furthermore > sudo was emerged with "-pam" in USE... > >[m1800][root][~]emerge --pretend --verbose --deep app-admin/sudo > >These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > >Calculating dependencies ...done! >[ebuild R ] app-admin/sudo-1.6.7_p5-r2 -pam -skey 0 kB > >Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > > man su is short and useless, other than pointing out /etch/suath and >the "wheel" group. "info su" doesn't even find "su" at all! It takes >me to info about "sum". Now what? > > > Check the memebers of the wheel group
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