On Saturday 25 October 2003 06:14 pm, illogic-al wrote:
> up until this morning i was happily at msec 4. i changed one of the default
> settings and now i can't su to root from anywhere. Either in X or at
> console. Help. I don't wanna reinstall. I have 9.2 btw
but once again man prevails over machine!
or man prevails over sh ... uh crappy that is, software in this case.
Somehow msec decided to change the suid bit on /bin/su
i followed the instructions here after some judicious googling:
http://www.ornl.gov/cts/archives/mailing-lists/tru64-unix-managers/2003/05/msg00025.html
and now i'm back in business.
Lesson for the day, DO NOT allow msec to run cron jobs
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There was a young lady who said,
As her bridegroom got into the bed,
"I'm tired of this stunt,
That they do with one's cunt,
You can get up my bottom instead."
