[Solved]su: Permission Denied

foxbat · Last edited by foxbat on Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:38 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'm dumb.

So i typed:

usermod -G portage,video

and now I can't su as root... I'm assuming this is because my user doesn't have permission to do so, right? How do i get my regular permissions back?
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foxbat · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

nevermind, looks like i just erased all of my user's groups, including the wheel group, which explains why i wasn't allowed to su. Logged out, logged back in as root, then i used gpasswd -a user group_name to readd myself. All is well...

but i'm still dumb
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didymos · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

You have to add that user to the wheel group. Using -G removes you from any group you're currently a member of if you haven't put it in the list on the command line.
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

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