Cannot login as root in terminal

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jan 5 14:39:17 UTC 2006


Jon Jahren wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:21 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> 
> 
>>what does
>>
>>ll /bin/su
>>
>>say?  Something like this?
>>
>>-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 78837 Jul 25 16:36 /bin/su
>>
>>especially the first part
>>
>>-rws
>>
>>-Andy
> 
> 
> It says:
> "[jon at localhost ~]$ ll /bin/su
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 jon root 59740 Jul 25 17:39 /bin/su"

Not the same as the one above then (the SUID bit is gone). Try:

# chmod 4755 /bin/su

I'd be wondering how the permissions got mangled though...

Paul.




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