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From: Niklas Bolander <niklas.bolander@telia.com>
Subject: Re: problems with command su
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:17:27 +0100
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Some systems requirers a user to be a member of the "wheel" group to be 
allowed to su.
Shouldn't be relevant since you could use it before but it might be 
worth checking out.

Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote:

>Sometime ago it was working normal without problems. After that I changed the 
>root password, always that I want to change something in the configuration of 
>the system, I run su from other user (vladimir).
>
>But the system says 'invalid password'. I tried the old, and new password, but 
>it doesn't work
>
>I have to logout, and login with root to change some configurations.
>  
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