I have tried to get into su mode inside my GNOME Terminal but when I 'su' and type in my root password, it says that I entered the wrong password. I tried this a various amount of times and had the same thing happen consistently. Could someone help me? I don't like being in root every single time I have to change something and I don't like going into the 'Console' option in the Mandrake Control Center to install stuff. Thanks.

hmm.. thats wierd, try crreating a new account and see if su works there...

Another account? As in... a new user? I already have a user. I also have the root. Should I just create a new account and try to 'su' there?

yes... post again if it doesn't work

can you log in as the root user?

Has it ever worked, or is this the first time you've tried?

logging in as root and being able to use su is not the same thing.

I use MDK 9.0 and am able to use su but it might of changed with 9.1 or your using a higher security level then normal.

I believe that a user needs to belong to the wheel group to be able to use su. I am not at may linux PC to see if this is still true.

Sorry I didn:t post. I couldn:t log onto mdk for a while (too much other work~ and I think Opera is now messing with my keyboard. I tried making another user but when I logged out of root to log in as the user, I didn:t see the choice, other than the user I made at installation. I:ll try to add myself to the wheel group. That may help. Thanks!

Edit: now I can:t get into UserDrake with my personal, non-root account. How odd this is. Hopefully, I:ll be switching to SuSe anyways in a few days... but the error message is really wierd.

Looks there is something strange going on.

It looks like su doesn't look at the wheel group but I don't remember where it looks for access any more.