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beijingjj
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:28 pm    Post subject: pam_authentication: permission denied Reply with quote

I just finished installing gentoo on my amd64 box. If I login as an unpriviledged user and try to "su" I get "pam_authenticaion: Permission denied" in /var/log/messages.

What could be the problem?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

add your user to the group "Wheel"

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=1&chap=11
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-11126.html
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