On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > I noticed on the info he posted that MY permissions on SU have the
> > SUID bit set and his doesn't. I don't know if that would cause it or
> > not.
>
> Yup... That was it. He could run it, it just couldn't read
> the shadow file (nor wo
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:26:33PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> >
> > That would have gotten him "permission denied" when he tried
> > to run it. That would come from the shell when it tried to exec a
> > binary with incorrect permissions. G
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > >
> > Interesting. On my stock RH 6.2 machine, the permissions are
> > -rwSr-xr-x (caps for emphasis only.)
> >
> > Try "chmod +s /bin/su"
> > John
>
> It looks like my recent restore I did on that machine, did not preserve the
> setuid bit
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>
> That would have gotten him "permission denied" when he tried
> to run it. That would come from the shell when it tried to exec a
> binary with incorrect permissions. Getting the generic "incorrect
> password" means that su actually did r
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2000 13:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Unable to su -
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> >
> > I checked the per
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:07:27PM -0400, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
[...]
> I checked the permissions for 'su', and they are fine:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13208 Apr 13 1999 /bin/su
No, that's bad... That's mode 755. It needs to be mode 4755:
"-r
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:51:30PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
> > 2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular user, and then try to run 'su -',
> > af
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
>
> I checked the permissions for 'su', and they are fine:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13208 Apr 13 1999 /bin/su
>
Interesting. On my stock RH 6.2 machine, the permissions are
-rwSr-xr-x (caps for emphasis only.)
Try "chmod +s /bin/su"
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2000 12:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Unable to su -
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Really
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
> 2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular user, and then try to run 'su -',
> after I enter the root password I get "su: incorrect password" error
> messa
Hi everyone,
Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular user, and then try to run 'su -',
after I enter the root password I get "su: incorrect password" error
message. I changed the root password a few times, checked the ca
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