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
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