[plug] gentoo progress

[Craig Ringer]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:16 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
> I'm now having a bit of trouble accessing root privileges.  I can login 
> as root with no problems.
> 
> su gets me:
> $ su
> <same password again>
> su: permission denied
> Sorry.
> $
> 
> man su  sheds no light on this.

That's rather odd. Missing /etc/pam.d/su ? is `su' setuid root?

Does Gentoo use SELinux?

Does `su' work when you're already root?

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Craig Ringer