Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Q. Gong wrote:
> 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.
>
I maybe found the reason. This is due to PAM. I restricted that only users
in group wheel can use su. But root is not in wheel. I will check it this
evening and then feed back. Now I am on another machin running SuSe 7.0.
Command su by root works. Thanks a lot for all replies.
Qian
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