From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 15:42:59 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 D03C916A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maslak@ihlas.net.tr) Received: from mailhub.ihlas.net.tr (mailhub.ihlas.net.tr [213.238.128.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D6143D46 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:42:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maslak@ihlas.net.tr) Received: (qmail 37283 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2005 15:44:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ihlasnetym) (maslak@213.238.150.220) by 0 with ESMTPA; 18 Nov 2005 15:44:08 -0000 Message-ID: <181601c5ec56$b4454bb0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> From: "Yavuz Maslak" To: "Bill Moran" , "Jerry McAllister" References: <17db01c5ec28$426f8920$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym><200511181506.jAIF6EpZ023847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20051118101358.5decddbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:42:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Cc: 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 15:42:59 -0000 Thanks a lot my problem has been solved. the permission wrong caused this problem. I rewrote permission right as below chmod 4755 /usr/bin/su ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" To: "Jerry McAllister" Cc: ; Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: I could not become superuser > 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: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >