Root password half lost :)

Greetings,
I do not understand something on my tiger.
If I log in graphicallty as user root, I I can enter using the correct password.
I log off, login using my account.
Open a terminal and type su to "become"temporaly root.
I then type the same password and I get denied.
What's going on ?
Many thanks for your input.
Regards,

Hi,
Thank you for your answer but it does not work :
If I enter my root password -> access denied
If I enter my password -> cyrain is in the sudoeers file, the incideent bla bal.
I understand this error, I should my user in the sudoers file,, i know this stuff ok.
Bu this is not what I'm interested into.
What I want to do is to be able to become temporaly root with a su command and ctrl+d when I'm finished.
I used to be able to do that but since I renamed my /Users/cyrain account, everything works ok bu this.
Thank you for any light shed on this topic....

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