On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:01:53PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine: > -rwsr-xr-x > ^ > I'm assuming this has something to do with it. From my limited > knowledge, I believe this is called the sticky bit?
Close, but not quite: -rwsr-sr-s ^ ^ ^ | | --- sticky | --- sgid --- suid > Could someone please > point me to where I can find out how to change the permissions to this > and to get a little more knowledge on the subject? `chmod u+s /bin/su` will fix this particular problem. `man chmod` will tell you a bit more about permissions, but I can't tell you what the definitive reference would be. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss