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



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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