belong to wheel group, but can't su to root.

[srain315]

I have a Gentoo 1.2 box. I recently moved a bunch of stuff from disk to disk (don't ask...) and I have the same problem with su.

It worked correctly before my machinations...

[borrito]

I ran into this same problem when I did a brand new install yesterday. I checked the new install against another machine with 1.2 installed and I noticed that /bin/su on the 1.2 machine had the SUID bit set, where the 1.4_rc1 /bin/su did not. I simply set the SUID bit on /bin/su

[pilla]

Looks like a bug for me. I think you should report it.

[torreyk]

I was having the same problem, getting an authentication failure. The fix in the above post: "chmod +s /bin/su" fixed it for me as well. This definitely sounds like a bug.

[Vlad]

Had the same problem today and fixed the problem by doing a

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[masseya]

There are many things that would save extraneous threads from being posted, but they still occur. You can read about several hundred of them in the Duplicates forum if you wish. If you think you have found a solution to something that will be or is a very commonly asked question you are more than welcome to PM a moderator and ask them nicely to make your thread sticky so others will be more likely to see it.
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[pilla]

Sometimes, it is just the case of searching a little bit better before asking the question. I think that we may make the point for some threads to be sticky, but if all important threads get sticky, we won't have space for new threads in the first page

Usually, when I have a feeling of deja-vu, I make a search and point the older thread. But I am quite busy these weeks, you know...

So, keep searching -- I'd post this in the Forums Feedback, but it won't make sense if it was not a reply to Tristam29 post, I guess.

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[tjolson]

For what it's worth:

I added my id to the wheel group, created an /etc/suauth file with the proper entry, and could not su to root. My problem appears to have been my editing the /etc/group file by hand, because although I saw the entry in the file, "groups" did not report me as being part of the "wheel" group. When I added myself to the wheel group with usermod, all was well.

[McManus]

It's been awhile, I suppose I should post my end result... turns out the CD I burned didn't come out quite perfectly I did an MD5SUM on the downloaded ISO, no probs, but the CD somehow didn't quite come outta the oven perfectly, go fig. Since it wasn't just 'su' that was giving me problems (X was as well), I figured I should try to reburn it, and whala, it all works.

If you just downloaded and burned the CD and installed and have this problem, one possible solution is to retry downloading and burning the ISO again

(this will be especially useful when 1.4 'officially' comes out, and the masses go out and download the ISO... chances are, SOME people with have bad burns or bad d/l's )
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[MrBlc]

i would just like to say thanks to borrito for the solution.. that was what did it for me...

keep up the good work

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[raid517]

Hi I had a very similar issue - and I found this section very helpful. It certainly worked for me - although I'm not sure which part, as it may have been a combination of several of the suggestions that were made.

However now that I can su as a user I have found that several of the applications I installed as root (specifically in this instance Firefox and Thunderbird) will not launch in user mode any more. I don't know if it is just these two applications or if it is a general trend, but the console output if I try to run them from a console is:

[raid517]

Just in case anyone is still watching this topic or does a search and finds it, I found the answer to this after a recent reinstall.

This whole thing is about keyboard locals in KDE (and possibly Gnome?).

To prove this you should try quitting X and attempt to log in at a console as a user.

Before doing this though, attempt to write out your password so you can actually see what you are typing. Make sure it is being typed out correctly and you haven't got the wrong local set at your prompt too.

You should be able to log in normally, providing you follow the install instructions for setting your keyboard and local.

Now try to log in to whatever account is giving you trouble (it might be root, or it might be a user account, depending on the password you use) via kdm or gdm. Again check that your password is being typed out correctly, as it seems (in particular) kdm might have it's own keyboard and localization files set independently of the konsole and KDE itself. (Try for example typing your password in your username field first). Now log into KDE using your correct password and user name. Now open a console and try to log in as su. Again first check you password is being typed correctly before doing this.

Fixing this in KDE is easy, just open Kcontrol and set your keyboard and local. I haven't though figured out yet how to fix this in KDM so if anyone can tell me how to do this, please feel free. But essentially that is where the fault lay - for me at least. Kind of dumb I know - but when KDE started I'm pretty sure I did choose my correct localization, but for some weird reason it just didn't stick. I just never thought about it much again afterwards.

GJ

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