On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am > unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure. > When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permitted'. > I think my passwordhandling is messed up. > How can I make this work again? sounds like su lost its suid bit: [eb@socrates eb]$ ls -l /bin/su -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 24336 May 26 2000 /bin/su ^^^ if that is an x instead of an s or the file is not owned by root root you need to run: chown root.root /bin/su chmod 4755 /bin/su if it is suid root then something else is broken but i don't have any guesses without a bit more info. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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