[Discuss] su stopped working

[Noel Burton-Krahn]

Check out /bin/ping, it should be setuid too.  I've done that to myself 
before, accidentally overwriting permissions on files.  I think tripwire may 
record the original file permissions (if you are already running it).  Did 
you do a chmod -R lately?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome at shaw.ca>
To: "VLUG" <discuss at vlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:47 PM
Subject: [Discuss] su stopped working


>I tried to su and got a message something like
>
> su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
>
> Doing some searching with Google, I found that my problem was likely that 
> the the permissions were not correct for /bin/su  -- I think they were 
> something like
>
> -rwxr-xr-x
>
> One of the items I found said that the permissions SHOULD be
>
> -rwsr-xr-x    -- or 4755
>
> Of course, I couldn't do anything from my user session, so I logged out 
> then logged in as root, then did a chmod.
>
> It now seems to work, but I am wondering how it got changed in the first 
> place, and what other permissions may be incorrect.
>
> Any ideas as to what I should be looking for?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Murray
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