Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:42:38 +0200 From: "Yavuz Maslak" <maslak@ihlas.net.tr> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I could not become superuser Message-ID: <181601c5ec56$b4454bb0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> References: <17db01c5ec28$426f8920$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym><200511181506.jAIF6EpZ023847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20051118101358.5decddbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Thanks a lot my problem has been solved. the permission wrong caused this problem. I rewrote permission right as below chmod 4755 /usr/bin/su ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: <maslak@ihlas.net.tr>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: I could not become superuser > 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: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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