[debian-hurd-Bugs][304577] coreutils' su no longer works
Bugs item #304577, was changed at 11/07/2007 20:10 by Samuel Thibault
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Michael Banck (mbanck)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: coreutils' su no longer works
Category: None
Group: None
>Resolution: Fixed
Initial Comment:
buildd@beethoven:~$ su - mbanck
Password:
su: incorrect password
buildd@beethoven:~$ su --version
su (GNU coreutils) 5.97
su returns `incorrect password' no matter what.
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>Comment By: Samuel Thibault (sthibault)
Date: 07/06/2010 02:08
Message:
Seems to be working nowadays.
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Comment By: Michael Banck (mbanck)
Date: 23/08/2007 16:43
Message:
The problem is that su is not installed suid, so it only works for root. This is a bug in the Debian coreutils packaging which I will report now.
The solution is to run "chmod u+s /usr/bin/su" as root.
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Comment By: Vikram Vincent (vincent-guest)
Date: 23/08/2007 12:09
Message:
vincent@(mickey):su root
Password:
su: incorrect password
vincent@(mickey):su --version
su (GNU coreutils) 5.96
Now login as root:
(mickey):~#su vincent
vincent@(mickey):/root$
Thus su does not fail on all cases.
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