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by **David Buttri** » Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:12:22

we just rebooted a machine, and now I get this error:

$ su -
Sorry. Your user ID does not support this functionality.

this is solaris 8. I'm not familar with this error, I've looked in
PAM, it looks like I might have to add the su lines to pam.conf, but I
dont know.

Has anyone ever seen this before? if so, if you could share what you
did to fix it, that would be greatly appreciated.

DAvid Buttrick

by **Rich Lichtenfe** » Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:13:46

> we just rebooted a machine, and now I get this error:

> $ su -
> Sorry. Your user ID does not support this functionality.

> this is solaris 8. I'm not familar with this error, I've looked in
> PAM, it looks like I might have to add the su lines to pam.conf, but I
> dont know.

> Has anyone ever seen this before? if so, if you could share what you
> did to fix it, that would be greatly appreciated.

> DAvid Buttrick

In older version's of solaris you had to be a member of the wheel
group (I think that's what it was) in order to su to root. Was this
an upgrade? That would have been pre-2.6

Just a thought.

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