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On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:36 pm, Nick Smith wrote:
> This is odd, whenever I try to su from a normal user I get permission
> denied, what do I have to do to enable this?

add the user to the wheel group.
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:39:47 -0500, Jeff Smelser <tradergt@smelser.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:36 pm, Nick Smith wrote:
> > This is odd, whenever I try to su from a normal user I get permission
> > denied, what do I have to do to enable this?
>
> add the user to the wheel group.
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An, for your information, that's got to be the most frequently asked
question in the FAQ (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml).


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On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:52 pm, Collins Richey wrote:

> An, for your information, that's got to be the most frequently asked
> question in the FAQ (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml).

Yeah.. I need a canned respons trigger for some of these questions..

Jeff
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Quoting Nick Smith <nick@computernick.com>:

> This is odd, whenever I try to su from a normal user I get permission
> denied, what do I have to do to enable this?

Make sure that particular user is in the "wheel" group.

# nano -w /etc/groups

and add your user to the wheel line


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