On 01-Jun-99 Brad wrote: > The same thing happened to me. It appears that in the latest shellutils > package, someone forgot to mark that su should be suid root (or sgid > shadow when using shadow passwords). > > "chmod 4755 /bin/su" fixes it. You'll have to login as root to do so > though ;)
I did not know it had to be gid root. My laptop has /bin/su suid root and both use shadow passwords. I did install the newest shellutils today. thanks -- Andrew