Re: strange su error

[vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)]

> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:37:35 +0930
> From: Mike <mike@vee.net>
> To: debian-sparc <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: strange su error
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone else had a problem with su from unstable? When trying to su
> to root, after entering the correct password, I get the following: "su:
> cannot set groups: Operation not permitted"
>
> The call to initgroups is failing and after a little investigation, so
> would setgid and setuid. All are failing with EPERM.
>
> shellutils: 1.16-6.4
> libc6: 2.1.1-9
> kernel: 2.2.10
>
> Any ideas? Thanks,
> Michael.

You need to do:

	chmod 4755 /bin/su

And so does the package maintainer.  :=)

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu