Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:21:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: wmoran@potentialtech.com (Bill Moran) Cc: maslak@ihlas.net.tr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I could not become superuser Message-ID: <200511181521.jAIFLNSq023915@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051118101358.5decddbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> > Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I installed FreeBSD6.0. and it was running well by today . > > > My FreeBSD server gave a problem about user login. > > > I could not become superuser. > > > my user that has superuser. When I login the server this user > > > the screen gives things as below > > > user>su > > > not running setuid > > > > > > what shell I do ? > > > > I think you are saying that you tried to 'su' from a non root user login. > > Is that true? > > If so, the thing to check is if that user is in the 'wheel' group. > > Look in the file /etc/group and make sure that user is added > > to the wheel group. > > Actually, I believe su is more helpful if that's the case, giving an > error such as "you are not in the correct group ..." > > The "not running setuid" makes me wonder. Have you changed permissions > on any files on that machine. the su program will need setuid permissions > and be owned by root to work properly. On my 5.4 machine, it looks like > this: Yah, I wondered too, but I thought the first thing to do was get the wheel group check out of the way. Then I would have to start thinking. ////jerry > > ls -l /usr/bin/su > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14292 May 27 12:24 /usr/bin/su > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com >
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