Bug 63823

Summary:	su broken, cant su to root: permission denied
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Schrangl Lukas <schrangl>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Schrangl Lukas 2004-09-12 13:01:22 UTC

When logging on as normal user i cant su to root.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
user@workstation / $ su
Password:
su: Permission denied
Sorry.
Actual Results:  
no root shell 
su says: 
> su: Permission denied 
> Sorry. 
syslog-ng logs: 
> su[xxxx]: pam_authenticate: Permission denied 

Expected Results:  
root shell 

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 
2.6.7-gentoo-r14) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 i686 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dnow X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr 
encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww 
mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl 
png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype 
usb x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

Comment 1 Sam Kimbrel 2004-09-12 13:09:07 UTC

Can you give us the output of "groups" or "id" run as the user you want to su from?

Comment 2 Schrangl Lukas 2004-09-12 13:20:00 UTC

bash-2.05b$ id
uid=1000(lukas) gid=100(users) groups=5(tty),18(audio),80(cdrw),100(users)

Comment 3 Sam Kimbrel 2004-09-12 13:35:17 UTC

Run "gpasswd -a [username] wheel" as root and su will work.

Comment 4 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-12 13:37:07 UTC

Seems this is solved thanks to Sam Kimbrel. Reopen bug if adding user and logging out/back in doesn't solve your problem.

Comment 5 Schrangl Lukas 2004-09-12 13:45:11 UTC

sorry, found this in the faq now...