On 02-Jun-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:59:56 -0400, David Gaudine wrote: > >>power failure. (i.e. while I'm still logged in and don't have to >>work from a rescue disk.) > > Have you looked at the password/shadow entries for root? > I had this problem yesterday and the cause is a faulty package, the one containing the su executable. It needs to be reset suid root. -- Andrew