Re: Su && Development Packages

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
> Ben Collins said:
> 
>  >> % su
>  >> su: Authentication failure
>  >> Sorry
>  >> %
>  >>
>  >> When I _know_ I have given the right password. Caps Lock is off, I've 
> tried
>  >> typing it plain text so I know the input is correct, I've logged in as 
> root
>  >> and changed root's passwd and it still doesn't work when su-ing from a
>  >> normal user account.
>  >>
>  >> /bin/su is chown root.root and file permissions are correct.
>  >
>  >What are the file permissions?
> 
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root 22992 Mar 14 08:28 /bin/su

There's the problem. Somehow you got the perms changed. They need to be:

-rwsr-xr-x

So, "chmod 4755 /bin/sh" and all should be well.

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