On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:41:35PM +1200, Andrew Tarr wrote:
> So I reinstalled Debian from the installation beta on my laptop, and
Was this a fresh reinstallation, or have you restored files from backup?
Are the permissions on /bin/su set to 4755?
> Now I can no longer 'su'. I can log in as root fine, but 'su'ing from
> my standard user account just results in
If you're logged in as root, does using su(1) to change to another user
work? If it's failing, strace(1) the su process and look of obvious
failures, or post the censored strace log to the list.
> sudo doesn't work either, FWIW.
What's the problem with sudo(8)?
Cheers,
-mjg
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