[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird su lockout

severian@pobox.com severian at pobox.com
Thu Apr 24 08:39:54 CDT 2003


Howdy,
   Does it give you a message about wheel group?  I just stupidly broke my 
Suse box, so I can't check this until after I fix it.  I think Suse set it 
up so that only members of the wheel group could su.  This is a security 
feature.  Just go  add the user you are logged in as to that group and su 
will work.
Good luck,
Ralph

p.s.  I broke it by running the Suse update program.  I was not paying 
attention and selected remove programs instead of update.   Oh, well.

In response to the welcome remarks of Stephen Davidson at 02:06 PM 4/23/03 
-0500:
>I have this weird thing with it where I can't su to root.  But I CAN login 
>as root via ssh.





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