On Monday 29 August 2005 12:02, Rajat Gujral wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Thanx to all of u for helping me out to install gentoo ... Without ur
> suggestions it wouldnt have been possible ..
>
> Now that i have completed installation and created users .. I am not
> able to log into the superuser mode through my login  , it keeps
> showing
>
> su -
> Password:
> su: Permission denied
> Sorry.
>
>
> Even when i try to access the root previliges through the user , it
> does not accept my password but the password i am entering is correct
> .. What can be possibly wrong with it ...
>
> Thnx & Rgds

You need to be a member of the wheel group.

gpasswd -a username wheel

as root

HTH
Brian
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