[NBLUG/talk] su permission problem

Augie Schwer augie.schwer at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 10:32:24 PDT 2004


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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:24:14 -0700, Eric Eisenhart <eric at nblug.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:37:40PM -0700, ShadowEyez wrote:
> > The su binary has execute permissions for everyone, so how do I let regular
> > users su into root? (I know there's probably a lot of ways, I just can't
> > think of any)
> Try putting those users into the "wheel" or "admin" group.

According to this linux.gentoo.user thread:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1cujW-3g7-21%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsu%2520gentoo%2520permission%2520denied.%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

Eric is right; the user needs to be in the "wheel" group to be able to 
use the su command.

Augie.


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