> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am > > unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure. > > When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permitted'. > > I think my passwordhandling is messed up. > > How can I make this work again? > > sounds like su lost its suid bit: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /bin/su > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 24336 May 26 2000 /bin/su > ^^^
Youhei! That was the reason. Do you have any idea how this could have happened? I must say that I have a bit of a not-ordinary system for about three days. My root is mounted as NFS and I did a fresh install over NFS. But I had done it before with a less loaded install, and it worked perfectly. Thanks, Sebastiaan
