Re: can't su, but I can log in as root

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:27:48 -0700 (MST)
Al - image hosting services <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, [ISO-8859-1] Stefan Kr_ger wrote:
> > Al - image hosting services wrote:
> > > My fstabs looks like this:
> > > /dev/sd0f       /usr    ffs     rw,softdep,nosuid       1 2
> >
> > well this should be obvious now...
> 
> Ok, what is wrong?
> 
/usr/bin/su can't run suid if /usr is mounted nosuid...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb