Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:33:01 -0800 From: RGireyev@BellInd.com To: <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Post installation stuff Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=BellInd%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970305003301Z-1673@cdcexchange.bellind.com>
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> >On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 RGireyev@BellInd.com wrote: > >> [..] >> >> >> Troubles continue. I added another user onto the system ( named >> >> beavis) and assigned him to the group bin, which if I'm not >> >> mistaken is the group of the root. I logged in as beavis and >> > >> >You are mistaken. Root's group is wheel. >> > >> >> STILL was not allowed to su :-( I am running a clean install >> >> of 2.1.7 (not an upgrade) and I add users using /stand/sysinstall . >> >> Am I the only clueless newbie this is happening to? >> > >> >Probably not. Only members of group wheel are allowed to su. >> >> Hi Ben! >> Thanks for replying again. If you remember though my original >> user was part of the group wheel and I still could not su. I cannot >> wait to get home and look at the code, maybe I'll see something there. > >Right, but wheel is still the group that can su. Did you make sure the >permissions were right? What happened when you tried to su? Doohhh! Sorry completely forgot to tell you. After getting your mail I went home and did the following: 1. Logged in as root. 2. which su (gave me the path something like /sbin/su or whatever) 3. the permissions looked as follows -r-sr-xr-x 4. I type chmod 455 /sbin/su 5. did ll, it then looked like: -r--r-xr-x Still no go, not for a user in group wheel or group bin. I guess I should note here that it looks like the program executes, alright, and some snippet of code within it determines that I do not have the security to perform su. So it kindly spits a message to me telling me that "You do not have permission to perform su ...." Thanks again Rudy > > Ben > >"You have your mind on computers, it seems." > >
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