On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Q. Gong said: > > > (root) # su > > su: Permission denied > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root) > There are something interesting. I am using Debian 3.0 (Woody). It's almost a newly installed system. Qian