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Supermule · Post by **Supermule** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:38 pm

Hi,

For security reasons, I cannot "su" in console in my KDE.
Can this be disabled? Or what do you guys do? Frequently I have a lot of programs open, and all of a sudden I need to be "root"....what to do then?

thanks,
Supermule

hooligan · Post by **hooligan** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:56 pm

is your user in the "wheel" group in /etc/group?

I believe all users that need su must be in the wheel group...

From the Gentoo FAQ, section 2.2-3:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml

Why can't a user su to root?

For security reasons, users may only su to root if they belong to the wheel group. To add a username to the wheel group, issue the following command as root:

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# usermod -G users,wheel username

Supermule · Post by **Supermule** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:08 pm

hooligan wrote:is your user in the "wheel" group in /etc/group?

I believe all users that need su must be in the wheel group...

From the Gentoo FAQ, section 2.2-3:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml

Why can't a user su to root?

For security reasons, users may only su to root if they belong to the wheel group. To add a username to the wheel group, issue the following command as root:
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# usermod -G users,wheel username

Thanks, that was it...
Time to get those manuals printed

regards,
Supermule