Re: Question on su behavior

"Timothy Robnett" <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:34:04 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.trustix.general
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On 2/17/07, Ariën Huisken <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As a non-root user when I try to su to another account on my system
> > which I know the password for I am receiving the error "su: incorrect
> > password" after entering the correct password. To confirm I really
> > know the password I can from the same system ftp to localhost and
> > succesffully authenticate. What is it I don't understand about su in
> > this situation?
>
> This users has to be a member of the root group.
>
Thanks for the quick reply, I made the wrong assumption that like sudo
I needed to be in the wheel group. Thanks for the fast follow-up.

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