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Right now, I'm thinking that maybe you don't have well set the
keyboard of your X11... try to write all the special characteres of
your root pass in a xterm and be sure that symbols like - * : or
whatever are represented correctly in your xterm console...

David GP


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:54:22 +0100, Flávio L. C. de Moura
<flavio@macs.hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have gentoo installed in my laptop and, today when I tried to su from
> a xterm I got:
>
> bash-2.05b$ su
> Password:
> su: Permission denied
> Sorry.
> bash-2.05b$
>
> It was working fine yesterday and, I can su from a text terminal
> (ctrl+alt+f?). I belong to the whell group.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve it?
>
> regards,
>
> Flavio.
>
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What did you change? Is your user still part of the wheel group.

>
> From: "Flávio L. C. de Moura"
> <flavio@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> Date: 2004/10/21 Thu AM 09:54:22 GMT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] su not working
>
> Hi,
>
> I have gentoo installed in my laptop and, today when I tried to su from
> a xterm I got:
>
> bash-2.05b$ su
> Password:
> su: Permission denied
> Sorry.
> bash-2.05b$
>
> It was working fine yesterday and, I can su from a text terminal
> (ctrl+alt+f?). I belong to the whell group.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve it?
>
> regards,
>
> Flavio.
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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On 10:54, Thu 21 Oct 04, Fl?vio L. C. de Moura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have gentoo installed in my laptop and, today when I tried to su from
> a xterm I got:
>
> bash-2.05b$ su
> Password:
> su: Permission denied
> Sorry.
> bash-2.05b$
>
> It was working fine yesterday and, I can su from a text terminal
> (ctrl+alt+f?). I belong to the whell group.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve it?

The user needs to be a member of the wheel group.

Ken

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