on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:25:35PM +0100, Sebastiaan (sebas@sacred-key.org) wrote:
> > 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
> > ^^^
>
> Youhei! That was the reason. Do you have any idea how this could have
> happened?
Possibly an abnormally exited system update? Try:
$ dpkg --configure -a
...which, I think, will attempt to reconfigure any packages left
pending.
I've had related issues with gpg, which flashes errors during system
updates as the SUID bit hasn't been set yet.
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