On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:50:25PM -0700, amaya wrote:
> 	I just installed a NetBSD and a bunch of packages onto my
> Decstation. Every thing went well until I got lazy and tried to clone the
> installed system onto a newer, quieter drive rather than doing a fresh
> install.
> 	I copied the / and /usr file systems from the old drive to the new
> one using pax. The newly cloned system had a few quirks until I remade the
> device files, but after that every thing seemed fine on the cloned system
> except that su always fails (just says sorry).  It works fine on the old
> disk. What have I done wrong? (other than being lazy)

I guess you didn't preserve permissions (especially suid bits) while
copying.
What command did you use ?

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