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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA400 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:06:18 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!ss.titech!cradle.titech!nakamura From: nakamura@cradle.titech.ac.jp (Kazushi NAKAMURA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: su problems. Message-ID: <1kgt8iINNqmo@nanny.cradle.titech.ac.jp> Date: 31 Jan 93 16:03:30 GMT References: <1993Jan27.070108.27600@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <C1JBwH.E0A@demon.co.uk> Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: nanny.cradle.titech.ac.jp In article <C1JBwH.E0A@demon.co.uk> peter@alice.wonderland.org writes: > GALBRAITH JOHN (galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote: > : On my 386bsd machine, nobody can su to root. There is no ... > : no password is needed. Obviously, this is a pain. Does anybody know > : what is going on? Thanks. > > Users who are allowed to su must be in the "wheel" group. > > On a similar note "su -c command" doesn;t seem to work for me, or am I > being stupid ? Then,check the setuid bit of /bin/su. v -rwsr-xr-x 1 root ... /bin/su* ^this If not,type "chmod u+s /bin/su" as root. Good luck! -- nakamura@cradle.titech.ac.jp $@CfB<!!(J $@OB;V(J kazus-n@ascii.co.jp NAKAMURA Kazushi jo3oob@jo3oob 1297.44MHz