[lug] Su problems

[Ferdinand Schmid]

The su command among other things (like ping) is disabled for users if
you run
with paranoid permissions.  You can change this - but if you want your
changes
to stick then you need to modify /etc/permissions.local.  Check out the
various /etc/permissions.* files for more info.

Ferdinand

--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 03:44:23 PM -0700 Dan Ferris
<dan at ferrises.com> wrote:

> Sux is su for X.
> 
> I got it to work, su had the incorrect permissions.  I changed it
> from paranoid to secure.
> 
> I have to do some stuff with sudo on a bunch of machines, so the
> advice for using sudo was much appreciated.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Jeffrey Brown wrote:
> 
>>>>> stimits at comcast.net 11/18/2003 3:06:27 PM >>>
>> 
>> Dan Ferris wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> This is driving me nuts.
>>> 
>>> The system is SuSE 9.0
>>> 
>>> dferris at stargate:~> su
>>> Password:
>>> su: incorrect password
>>> dferris at stargate:~>
>> 
>> 
>> I recall reading somewhere that SuSE 9 uses sux rather than su, does
>> that work?
>> 
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