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

[Al - image hosting services <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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...

That fixed it, thanks. I get too much in a hurry sometimes. I just took my
fstabs from another box and changed the mount points. I didn't even think
about that until it was pointed out to me.

Thanks,
Al