Manuel Bouyer drunkenly mumbled...
>
> Looks like you used tar and forgot the '-p' flag; now your /usr/bin/su
> binary isn't suid any more.
> The easiest way to recover is to re-extract the sets again, with
> '-p' passed to tar.

that would explain some of the other problems that i have just started noticing
as well.  bah.  thanks for the tip, can't believe i overlooked that.

thanks again,

-brian