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deltamalloc
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Joined: 18 Jan 2013
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: Suddenly unable to su!

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I did:

Code:

emerge --sync
emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world

The emerge program then prompted me to make USE changes, I went to a different terminal do add them by hand, but su no longer worked.

I get:

Code:

$ su
Password:
su: Permission denied

I am able to log in as root in the terminal. I can su as root to a regular user, but I cannot as a reguler user (the same one I've been using for months) su to root.

I have not done any other noteworthy changes, like toggling pam related USE flags. My reguler user is in the wheel group (and have always been).

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Jaglover
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Joined: 29 May 2005
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Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:16 am Post subject:

What's in /var/log/messages ? _________________ My Gentoo installation notes. Please learn how to denote units correctly!

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deltamalloc
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:34 pm Post subject:

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Jaglover wrote:

What's in /var/log/messages ?

The problem was that I had accidentally omitted the -a argument to usermod when adding myself to another groups.

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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:04 pm Post subject:

I use vigr for that. _________________ My Gentoo installation notes. Please learn how to denote units correctly!

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