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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:00:31 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SU Problems on FBSD 4.0 Box
Message-ID:  <3958510E.56A3BAF3@i-clue.de>
References:  <C96996C3D753D311A5400001FAF86B258E28A9@ntli02-003.lsr-ooe.gv.at>

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Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have a Problem, SUing from a nonprivileged user in the wheel group to
> root. Everytime i trie a su i get the simple error Message "Sorry.".
> The access permissions for the password files are as followed:
> 
>         -rw-------  1 root  wheel   1154 Jun  7 23:41 /etc/master.passwd
>         -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1016 Jun  7 23:41 /etc/passwd
>         -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  40960 Jun  7 23:41 /etc/pwd.db
>         -rw-------  1 root  wheel  40960 Jun  7 23:41 /etc/spwd.db
> 
> And the password i typed in for root is correct. You are my last hope,
> because nobody in many different newsgroups has an answer to this
> question. Thank you.

Has somebody placed another su binary in your path? Try /sbin/su instead
of just su.

HTH
-Christoph Sold
P.S: If you ever used a fake su, assume your system to be cracked.


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