[lug] Su problems

Dan Ferris dan at ferrises.com
Tue Nov 18 15:36:07 MST 2003


Ah ha.

I had the SuSE Yast security permissions set to paranoid.  I changed

Therefore no workee.

Silly me.  Thanks for the help.

Peter Hutnick wrote:

> Dan Ferris said:
> 
>>The password isn't changed, as I can log in as root via console and ssh
>>using password.
> 
> 
> Would also happen if su is not -rwsr-xr-x  root root.  (The "s", last "x",
> and first "root" being key.)
> 
> Try "chmod 4755 /bin/su"
> 
> -Peter
> 
> 
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