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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:42:41 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        john Mish III <jmanfffreak@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: su to root denied?
Message-ID:  <20061207024240.GA75975@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY115-F332E6015760CD2256C6958BCDC0@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY115-F332E6015760CD2256C6958BCDC0@phx.gbl>

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:52:50PM -0600, john Mish III wrote:
> I get this error message when I try to su to anything, either from root o=
r=20
> to root, and I don't know why.
> $ su
> su: not running setuid

Somehow your su application lost its setuid bit.  Instead of blinding
chmodding it you may want to be careful and replace it with a known
good binary in case someone overwrote it somehow.

Kris

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