To su to root, one must be in the wheel group (borrowed from BSD?) > Hmm. Nope. It looks right. > ls -al /bin/su > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 24068 Feb 23 06:56 /bin/su > > I think I remember fixing this on another computer awhile ago. I wish I > could remember how though. How? > > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 22:31, der.hans wrote: > >>Am 16. Mar, 2003 schwätzte Bryce C so: >> >> >>>Can someone tell my why I get >>>su: Permission denied >>>Sorry. >>>when I try and su to root on my nice, clean gentoo install? More to the >>>point, can someone tell me how to fix this please? >> >>Look at the perms on /bin/su. Looks like you're missing some execute bits. >>It should be 4755, -rwsr-xr-x, with both owner and group being root. >> >>Gentoo might've reduced the perms for security reasons. Maybe they're trying >>to push using sudo. >> >>ciao, >> >>der.hans