Subject: Re: Can't su
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/17/2003 22:29:26
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:42:58PM -0800, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> I'm running 1.6L from January 4.  I know there are some issues with 
> permissions since /tmp and /var/spool/output/lpd were set wrong.
> 
> su asks for a password, notes that kerberos doesn't apply, and just 
> says Sorry.  I don't see anything in the logs except a reject message.
> 
> I have my user listed in /etc/group in the wheel group.

Make sure your su binary is suid root:
chown root /usr/bin/su
chmod u+s /usr/bin/su

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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