On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:45:28PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> after the RZ26L took a dive, i have since reinstalled NetBSD on the alpha
> using an RZ28 that i have.  same thing as before.  my primary group is wheel
> and i'm in /etc/group under wheel, yet when i try to su to root it tells me
> Sorry just like i have mistyped the password (which i haven't) although other-
> wise it seems to be working.
> 
> is this a known issue? this is the 20010224 snapshot which is what i had
> trouble on last time, i just sucked down -1.5S and i'm gonna rebuild world
> and see if that makes it any better.

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.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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