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Re: Command 'su' is not working in virtual console



You are sure that the original "su" ?





2011/12/16 Marko Randjelovic <marko.mppa@gmail.com>:
> main:~# ls -l /bin/su
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 34024 Feb 15  2011 /bin/su
>
> So I guess this time it's not the case. :(
>
> su does not ask for a password, just exits imediately with exit status 1.
>
> On 12/16/2011 08:25 PM, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:26:08PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>>
>>> I have very disturbing problem, so I hope someone will be in situation
>>> to help me.
>>>
>>> As I said in title, su is not working in virtual console for any
>>> combination of from-to users. In gnome-terminal it is working. sudo is
>>> also working.
>>>
>>> When I type 'su', is't the same as I just typed RETURN without any
>>> command, but exit status is 1.
>>>
>> Last time this happened for me it turned out that su was not SUID root
>> :-)
>>
>>
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