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



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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