Thanks a lot my problem has been solved. the permission wrong caused this problem.
I rewrote permission right as below chmod 4755 /usr/bin/su ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: I could not become superuser > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I installed FreeBSD6.0. and it was running well by today . > > > My FreeBSD server gave a problem about user login. > > > I could not become superuser. > > > my user that has superuser. When I login the server this user > > > the screen gives things as below > > > user>su > > > not running setuid > > > > > > what shell I do ? > > > > I think you are saying that you tried to 'su' from a non root user login. > > Is that true? > > If so, the thing to check is if that user is in the 'wheel' group. > > Look in the file /etc/group and make sure that user is added > > to the wheel group. > > Actually, I believe su is more helpful if that's the case, giving an > error such as "you are not in the correct group ..." > > The "not running setuid" makes me wonder. Have you changed permissions > on any files on that machine. the su program will need setuid permissions > and be owned by root to work properly. On my 5.4 machine, it looks like > this: > > ls -l /usr/bin/su > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14292 May 27 12:24 /usr/bin/su > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"