From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 13:53:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942B316A420 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:53:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayank@in.niksun.com) Received: from in.niksun.com (210.18.76.166.sify.net [210.18.76.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A82113C4A3 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:53:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayank@in.niksun.com) Received: from in.niksun.com (unknown [10.60.50.66]) by in.niksun.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECE05D40 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:01:07 +0530 (IST) From: Mayank Jain Organization: Niksun To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:51:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710221851.48278.mayank@in.niksun.com> Subject: su: not running setuid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:53:05 -0000 Hi all, I have run chown -R uname:wheel . as root in the / directory. Now it is not allowing me to log in as su. Giving the following error su su: not running setuid I have also tried su -l but still same error. Can any body suggest me some solution to this problem. uname -a FreeBSD mayankjain.in.niksun.com 6.2-RC1-p1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1-p1 #0: Mon Dec 4 09:56:16 UTC 2006 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 I have also tried following but it didn't allow me to do so. chown root:wheel /usr/bin/su chown: /usr/bin/su: Operation not permitted -- Regards Mayank Jain(Nawal) Niksun 9818390836 www.mayankjain.110mb.com