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alrighty...I've been having problems using the su command on my laptop (running gentoo 1.4f). Everytime I su and return, it prompts for the password (which i type in properly) and then i get a silly little error message saying "permission denied. sorry." Now, i searched the forums and could come up with nothing, other than adding my username into the wheel group (at /etc/group, i believe) and changing permissions. Well, i tried changing permissions, no luck... tweaking got me nothing but the inability to even execute su, so i chmoded back to -x-rx-rx-r or something like that. I also tried adding my user to /etc/group. I changed the a line from "wheel::10:root" to "wheel::10:root,me (where me is my username)...which did SOMETHING...it changed my error from "permission denied. sorry." to "authentication failure. sorry." So, great...progress? I dunno. Regardless, keep in mind that I am not even doing this through a console program from some windowmanager (although, it does the same thing in eterm through enlightenment) I am using commandline straight up. Root login works fine. User login works fine. su just wont do it's job, though. please help me if possible, thanks.

What's the output of
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Cheers,
Tink

output:
Does that help you/me?

It clarifies that belonging to group wheel
won't do anything for you...

Cheers,
Tink

well not you, not him, but me....

su needs the SUID bit set.. so you gotta chmod it correctly..


as root: chmod u+s /bin/su

should be solved then..