[Sussex] Changing Groups?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:22, Jon Fautley wrote:
> 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?

yup, Gentoo 1.4, but its sorted now, I simply edited /etc/group and
added myself to the wheel group and its now all good! :p

Cheers,

Matt
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