-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. said the following on 10/24/2012 07:39 AM:
I think there is another method that the user has to belong to a certain group to be able to su to root. Wheel or root group, perhaps.
Carlos has a point here. SU and SUDO are differnt. If the problem is with SU and not SUDO then the issue may be in how PAM is configured. see 'man pam wheel' and have a look at the contents of /etc/pam.d/su You should see lines like auth sufficient pam_rootok.so # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. #auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. #auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid The 'wheel group' is an old UNIX concept: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-i... - -- In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Frank Zappa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iOgEAQECAAYFAlCH7YkACgkQGa6akpZ3YCn6fgZeOZHp+AslfcyrpA6HcCG+9JJi 9OrH5mUDx4aD//9Sz3V0lLaKLGU3frnCEJKQjN619Uul0ry5O+6n0hyz+AWvrkGt To12Nvg2/Cy2EB5gc2VQ+lqzevSZYztBLrgHoUa220ALmt0HCXdiXSooy+5yNGE6 41aYztF2M4k9HZVVC9cVbFmSlKfBpc1pcKlHxxtmuKXSVtyUDBpUSkOevaQiGDyz HWtaXgMAg/gF7Yqt06EUqs/0SLDHG6dyghKFvRUIL9eckoAQIWkgSU5C =46yf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org