Cannot login as root in terminal

[Brian Gaynor]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:01 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:

> That file size is noticeably different than Andy's although it is the
> same size as mine.  The ownership and permissions are wrong so even if
> it is otherwise correct it cannot get you the permissions to do a true
> 'su'.  Note the SUID bit.
> 
> [jeff at eagle ~]$ ll /bin/su
> -rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 59740 Jul 25 10:39 /bin/su
> 
> 
> I would suspect that the box is "owned", or that you have otherwise
> changed the file somehow.
> 

Maybe not owned, I show a file size of 59740 bytes for su on my 32-bit
systems (i686), but 78837 bytes on my 64-bit (86_X64) systems. So the
discrepancy is most likely do to architecture.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 15:40:59 up 1:21, 1 user, 
load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.07