[plug] gentoo progress

[Mark O'Shea]

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.
Hi Jim,

First thing I would check with that is that su is suid so the utility
has the permission to change your uid.
Try:
ls -l /bin/su

If the result doesn't start:
-rwsr-xr-x 
then there is a problem.

-- 
Mark O'Shea