SUMMARY: cannot su to root

From: Mike Robinson <mike_at_dvfmv.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 15:34:44 -0700

Thanks to Charles Ballowe and Mandell Degerness for their responses.
They were definitely on the right track! It turns out that I'd
inadvertently changed the suid bit on /usr/bin/su while restoring some
files. Chmod u+s /usr/bin/su did the trick.

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Mike Robinson <mike_at_dvfmv.com>
Draper Valley Farms
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Robinson [mailto:mike_at_dvfmv.com]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:37 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
Subject: cannot su to root
Greetings,
Running the command su - in a telnet session, no longer works as
expected. The system just outputs a newline. I don't see nay entries in
the logs rejecting the su.
I recently applied the duv40fb18as0007-20020102 patch to my Tru64 4.0f
system. Could that have enabled some security feature I'm unaware of? My
user account is a member of the system and sysadmin groups.

Received on Mon May 05 2003 - 22:36:02 NZST