[Sussex] Changing Groups?

[Jon Fautley]

On Friday 22 Aug 2003 9:52 am, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Quick quiz for ya, I'm currently a non-root user on my system here at
> home but I can't seem to "su -", it keeps telling me permisson denied
> even though I can log in as root from the login screen.

Hmm, interesting. Sounds like an old unix thing (that I still implement on my
systems) where only people in the group 'wheel' can SU to root.

See if you have a file called /etc/suauth. Is this a linux system?

Jon
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