On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
> Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
> trusted.
>
> They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to
> su to any other username (including root) from any other account
> (previously, anyone could provided they had the password for that account).
> When trying, you get an "su: incorrect password' error". passwd is readable
> to the world, shadow is not.I am using shadow passwords.
Hmmm, "chmod u+s `which su`" maybe? Perhaps the suid bit was stripped from
the su binary?
Chris
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