'su' problem

Luke Kearney lukek at meibin.net
Thu Jul 15 22:40:17 PDT 2004


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:44:20 -0500
Miguel Cardenas <mfcardenas at prodigy.net.mx> spake thus:

> Hello list...
> 
> When I try to run 'su' it does not run and returns a message:
> 
> su: Sorry.
> 
> and returns to the shell prompt... I guess it is 'cos some kind of 
> permission... just read the 'su' manpage and it tells about a /etc/pam.conf 
> but the file is not present... should I create it by hand? or there is an 
> utility to add users or something like?
> 
> Thanx!

Is your user a member of the wheel group?

HTH

LukeK
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Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net>



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