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In my new Gentoo installation, su doesn't work as my non-root user: After entering the correct password I get the message "su: Permission denied". What could be causing this? I have already tried reinstalling the package containng /bin/su.

EDIT: sudo works.

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

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Are you able to su from root to another user?

– michas
Jan 20 '13 at 3:15

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EDIT: sudo works.

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

Are you able to su from root to another user?

– michas
Jan 20 '13 at 3:15

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EDIT: sudo works.

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

EDIT: sudo works.

permissions su

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

edited Jan 20 '13 at 1:18

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

asked Jan 20 '13 at 0:53

Erik

1,23421027

Are you able to su from root to another user?

– michas
Jan 20 '13 at 3:15

add a comment |

Are you able to su from root to another user?

– michas
Jan 20 '13 at 3:15

Are you able to su from root to another user?

– michas
Jan 20 '13 at 3:15

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I solved the same problem by editing

 /etc/pam.d/su

and commenting out this line:

auth       required     pam_wheel.so use_uid

It requires users to be in the wheel group to be able to switch user.
User switching as non-root works again when this pam module is disabled for su.

The alternative is to add the user to the wheel group, of course (gentoo recommends this)

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

add a comment |

There could be many problems. Check some of these items, using the hypothetical user, erik:

Is erik a member of the wheel group (groups)?

Are you providing the root password? (And not the password for erik)

Does /bin/su have these privileges: rwsr-xr-x (Is it setuid root? ls -l /bin/su)

Can you log in as root via the console?

Have you looked at the logs for a clue in an error message?

Have you turned on grsecurity in the kernel?

Did it ever work? If so, when did it break?

What happens if erik does a sudo su -?

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

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There could be many reasons. It's very likely that the reason appears in the system logs. Look in /var/log for files that got modified at the time of an su attempt (the file name depends on your syslog configuration). If you have trouble interpreting log entries, copy-paste them into your question.

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I compiled shadow in the course of building Linux From Scratch 8.4, and I could login as root or an unprivileged user, but couldn't su from unprivileged user to root, as for Erik above. It turned out the su binary was owned by my unprivileged user. It worked after I chowned the su binary to root, and did 'chmod u+s' on the su binary.

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That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
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I solved the same problem by editing

 /etc/pam.d/su

and commenting out this line:

auth       required     pam_wheel.so use_uid

It requires users to be in the wheel group to be able to switch user.
User switching as non-root works again when this pam module is disabled for su.

The alternative is to add the user to the wheel group, of course (gentoo recommends this)

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

add a comment |

I solved the same problem by editing

 /etc/pam.d/su

and commenting out this line:

auth       required     pam_wheel.so use_uid

It requires users to be in the wheel group to be able to switch user.
User switching as non-root works again when this pam module is disabled for su.

The alternative is to add the user to the wheel group, of course (gentoo recommends this)

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

add a comment |

I solved the same problem by editing

 /etc/pam.d/su

and commenting out this line:

auth       required     pam_wheel.so use_uid

It requires users to be in the wheel group to be able to switch user.
User switching as non-root works again when this pam module is disabled for su.

The alternative is to add the user to the wheel group, of course (gentoo recommends this)

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

I solved the same problem by editing

 /etc/pam.d/su

and commenting out this line:

auth       required     pam_wheel.so use_uid

It requires users to be in the wheel group to be able to switch user.
User switching as non-root works again when this pam module is disabled for su.

The alternative is to add the user to the wheel group, of course (gentoo recommends this)

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

edited Jul 7 '18 at 11:11

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

answered Jun 27 '13 at 23:26

TheJJ

24526

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

add a comment |

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

I was going to update your other questions/answers since this one was so good, you only have one answer over the last 5 years? You need to up those numbers bro, those are rookie numbers.

– Eric Leschinski
Jul 7 '18 at 12:25

add a comment |

There could be many problems. Check some of these items, using the hypothetical user, erik:

Is erik a member of the wheel group (groups)?

Are you providing the root password? (And not the password for erik)

Does /bin/su have these privileges: rwsr-xr-x (Is it setuid root? ls -l /bin/su)

Can you log in as root via the console?

Have you looked at the logs for a clue in an error message?

Have you turned on grsecurity in the kernel?

Did it ever work? If so, when did it break?

What happens if erik does a sudo su -?

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

add a comment |

There could be many problems. Check some of these items, using the hypothetical user, erik:

Is erik a member of the wheel group (groups)?

Are you providing the root password? (And not the password for erik)

Does /bin/su have these privileges: rwsr-xr-x (Is it setuid root? ls -l /bin/su)

Can you log in as root via the console?

Have you looked at the logs for a clue in an error message?

Have you turned on grsecurity in the kernel?

Did it ever work? If so, when did it break?

What happens if erik does a sudo su -?

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

add a comment |

There could be many problems. Check some of these items, using the hypothetical user, erik:

Is erik a member of the wheel group (groups)?

Are you providing the root password? (And not the password for erik)

Does /bin/su have these privileges: rwsr-xr-x (Is it setuid root? ls -l /bin/su)

Can you log in as root via the console?

Have you looked at the logs for a clue in an error message?

Have you turned on grsecurity in the kernel?

Did it ever work? If so, when did it break?

What happens if erik does a sudo su -?

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

There could be many problems. Check some of these items, using the hypothetical user, erik:

Is erik a member of the wheel group (groups)?

Are you providing the root password? (And not the password for erik)

Does /bin/su have these privileges: rwsr-xr-x (Is it setuid root? ls -l /bin/su)

Can you log in as root via the console?

Have you looked at the logs for a clue in an error message?

Have you turned on grsecurity in the kernel?

Did it ever work? If so, when did it break?

What happens if erik does a sudo su -?

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

edited Nov 18 '16 at 20:40

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

answered Jan 20 '13 at 3:17

Christopher

10.9k33349

add a comment |

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

547k13011131630

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

547k13011131630

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community♦

answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

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answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

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answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:53

Gilles

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answered 43 mins ago

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That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
1 min ago

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answered 43 mins ago

John Clark

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That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
1 min ago

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answered 43 mins ago

John Clark

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answered 43 mins ago

John Clark

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That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
1 min ago

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That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
1 min ago

That's good to know, but unlikely to be the original problem, as it was installed from a package and a different answer was already accepted.

– RalfFriedl
1 min ago

add a comment |

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