can't su to root?

[Kibab]

Why can't I su to root as a regular user? I tried looking through the different pam modules and tried editing /etc/suauth (see man su), but neither helped.

Thanks.

--Kibab

[ealfert]

you need to add the user to the "wheel" group.

Only members of "wheel" can su to root.
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[Kibab]

Thanks. Is that in a configuration file somewhere, or hardcoded into the su program?

[metalhedd]

run moduser -G wheel <username>

you might wanna check man moduser cuz thats off the time of my head, I'm on a windoze box at work right now.

might actually be usermod instead of moduser. can't remember that either

[klieber]

[therobot]

or you could read the FAQ, or even possibly search the forums, there must be about 300 other threads the exact same as this.

[rac]

[stan]

just cd to /etc then nano group then add the name of your user to the wheel group.


simple as that.