On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:08:06PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> i setup myself up in wheel, but i can't su to root.  almost as if i was typing
> in the wrong password, except i can log onto the console as root using the
> very same exact password.
> 
> wonko@arthur$ su -
> Password:
> Sorry
> wonko@arthur$ 

Make sure /usr/bin/su is suid root (ls -l /usr/bin/su should looks like:
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14476 Jan  9 20:54 /usr/bin/su
the -r-s is important)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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