Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-18 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 18, 2012 at 6:22 AM pk wrote: > On 2012-03-18 04:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > > Am I eternally confused? > > I have no idea... besides, eternity is a long time... ;-) > > > su - change user ID or become superuser > > > > It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theoretically if you onl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-18 Thread pk
On 2012-03-18 04:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > Am I eternally confused? I have no idea... besides, eternity is a long time... ;-) > su - change user ID or become superuser > > It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theoretically if you only have one > normal user). On a true multiuser system you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-18 Thread Dale
Here's a update on this mess. I resynced and did the updates. One of the packages was shadow. There was some others that I don't think is related. So, after that it worked. I had booted WITH NO init thingy. So, after making sure it was working and I was sane again, I rebooted WITH the init t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-17 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM pk wrote: > That's what gives you permission to use 'su' as a member of the 'wheel' > group ('su' is controlled by 'pam'). > > Best regards > > Peter K > Am I eternally confused? su - change user ID or become superuser It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-17 Thread Dale
pk wrote: > On 2012-03-17 11:19, Dale wrote: > >> The program 'su' could not be found. >> Ensure your PATH is set correctly. > > What does 'echo $PATH' give you? /bin should be in your path (that's > where 'su' is located, or should be)... My $PATH looks like this: > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-17 Thread pk
On 2012-03-17 11:19, Dale wrote: > The program 'su' could not be found. > Ensure your PATH is set correctly. What does 'echo $PATH' give you? /bin should be in your path (that's where 'su' is located, or should be)... My $PATH looks like this: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-

[gentoo-user] KDE and permissions problems

2012-03-17 Thread Dale
Howdy, This is sort of weird. I upgraded my kernel to gentoo's 3.2.9. When I rebooted, I noticed some odd issues with permissions. When I try to log into Konsole or some other root access program, I get something like this: The program 'su' could not be found. Ensure your PATH is set correctly