su to root problem

Sophrosyne · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2024 Posts: 1

My install was going fine. I has just chrooted and was working on flags when I decided to add my user I su to my user to make sure all was well. My user was in the wheel group and I know the first thing I did was add my root passwd for my install. In most of the posts I read it said use sudo su which doesn't work. I don't want to start over. suggestions please.

rfx · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:25 am Post subject:

Did you emerge "app-admin/sudo" and edit the file "/etc/sudoers" ?
The last few lines, uncomment (-#) "%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL"
you need this to allow user in "wheel-group" to use sudo

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:47 am Post subject:

Sophrosyne,

Welcome to Gentoo.

After you log in as root and su to <normal_user>, type exit to go back to being root.
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