su busted? SUID issue?

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Thu Sep 8 01:22:45 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:06 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> Running lastest rawhide:
> 
> 'su -l' fails:
> 
> [x ~]$ su -
> Password:
> su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
> 
> [tbl at tlondon ~]$ ls -l /bin/su
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 23516 Sep  6 19:41 /bin/su
> 
> Missing SUID/SGID?
> 
> anyone else seeing this?

Yes, I'm seeing it too.

As a work around I can 'sudo su -' which prompts me for the password and
then logs me in as su.


Rodd
-- 
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
 It's much better on my side"




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