From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 23:59:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0ABA37BD48 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id IAA24731; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:59:46 +0200 Message-ID: <3958510E.56A3BAF3@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:00:31 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU Problems on FBSD 4.0 Box References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a Problem, SUing from a nonprivileged user in the wheel group to > root. Everytime i trie a su i get the simple error Message "Sorry.". > The access permissions for the password files are as followed: > > -rw------- 1 root wheel 1154 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/master.passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1016 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/pwd.db > -rw------- 1 root wheel 40960 Jun 7 23:41 /etc/spwd.db > > And the password i typed in for root is correct. You are my last hope, > because nobody in many different newsgroups has an answer to this > question. Thank you. Has somebody placed another su binary in your path? Try /sbin/su instead of just su. HTH -Christoph Sold P.S: If you ever used a fake su, assume your system to be cracked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message