From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 15:21:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E92616A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:21:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C36C43D4C for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:21:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id jAIFLN38023916; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:21:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id jAIFLNSq023915; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:21:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200511181521.jAIFLNSq023915@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: wmoran@potentialtech.com (Bill Moran) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:21:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20051118101358.5decddbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: maslak@ihlas.net.tr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I could not become superuser 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: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:21:24 -0000 > > Jerry McAllister 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: Yah, I wondered too, but I thought the first thing to do was get the wheel group check out of the way. Then I would have to start thinking. ////jerry > > 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 >