RE: Weird su problems
On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote:
> It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize for
> not knowing which package contains su, but I have the latest version for
> Potato (x86) as of Wednesday (yesterday). I've just discovered that
> su fails to work on the console, too. Should I downgrade some packages (and
> if so, how is that done?) or wait until the next version of package x(y,z)
> to come out? Is anyone else having this problem?
Yes, it is shellutils package, and to fix it, just make /bin/su suid root.
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Andrew
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